Mar Coll returns to directing feature films a decade later with 'Las Madres No'

Comienza el rodaje de ‘Las Madres No’, producción de Escándalo y Elastic con la que Mar Coll, una década después de ‘Todos queremos lo mejor para ella’, regresa a la dirección.

In Las Madres No, Coll se inspira en la novela homónima de Katixa Agirre para contar la historia de María (34), una joven escritora que acaba de ser madre y que vive obsesionada con un escandaloso suceso: Alice Espanet (37) ha ahogado a sus mellizos de 10 meses en la bañera. Escribir sobre Alice será la única manera de María de poder entender la radical experiencia de su propia maternida.

En palabras de la director, in this feature film that is articulated as a intimate drama with "lights of mystery, embroidering for moments the psychological thriller", "the protagonist is a repentant mother, an association of words that generates an automatic discomfort. How can you deny a baby, the most helpless, innocent and pure thing there is? Well, the fact is that you can. But motherhood has been so underrepresented and in such a partial way in an often syrupy light, that any dissonant experience has been buried by taboo."

Co-written by Mar Coll and Valentina Viso, Las Madres No It stars newcomer Laura Weissmahr alongside Oriol Pla. Completing the cast are Giannina Fruttero and Belén Cruz. The film, already filming in various locations in Barcelona, ​​Vall de Boí and Tarragona, marks the return of the filmmaker after Three days with family y We all want the best for her and after several series like Kill the father y This is not Sweden.

Mothers Don't chas the support of ICEC, he ICAA and with the participation of RTVE y Movistar Plus+. It is distributed in Spain by Elaástica Films and international sales will be handled by Playtime.