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It’s a brilliant and heartfelt exploration of motherhood, grief, friendship and the importance of platonic love.Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "No one else makes movies like this Spanish director" and added, "In other hands, these characters might be candidates for confessions – and brawls – on The Jerry Springer Show, but here they are handled with utmost sympathy. It's a book about friendship and motherhood and finding your own people and it gave me all the feels that I got from Still Life. The film is, however, dedicated “to every actress who has ever played an actress” and to the director’s mother. Manuela tells her that Lola is Esteban's father, but Rosa's mother is appalled and says, "That is the monster that killed my daughter? It's a totally immersive story, at times painful and at others joyful, that had me ugly-crying for the last two chapters.
The poster intentionally emphasizes red, white and blue with black accent strokes and a pop of yellow. I think the character development is done so well and Eva becomes such a strong woman and has such a strong voice. When school requires her to bring a photo of herself as a baby she discovers there are no photographs.
Listening to Miss Feast read the book to her class, Eva is struck by the thought that there are many different types of mothers in the world, and by its follow-up, that she and her own mother Cherie did not match. The characters were all so relatable and so heart warming to follow their experiences, highs and lows. No hay cosas que me guste más que adentrarme en una historia completamente a ciegas, sin tener referencias de nadie. This goes on for a number of years, along the way we meet some lovely characters and families and one or two not so lovely characters.
And so it goes; we follow Eva as she forms relationships and seeks support from them but always aware of what is missing. The setting of Cordoba was popular with readers, those having visited the city being especially complimentary. The book has a poetic sensibility in which colours, feelings and scents merge, creating this moving story world. Rosa's mother spots them from the street and confronts Manuela about letting strangers see the baby.Manuela agrees with her colleagues at work that her son's heart be transplanted to a man in A Coruña. Eva us the child of a loveless marriage - her mother is fragile and her Spanish father is largely absent. I thought it might be too dumbed down or sentimental for my taste but I absolutely adored it and I hugely recommend it. She also isn't supportive of her daughter and when Eva meets her best friend, Bridget, she sees exactly how mothers usually behave in loving homes.
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