Manager: Celia Rico
Artists: María Vázquez, Adriana Ozores, Aimar Vega
Year: 2024
Premiere: 3/8/24
★★★
There are two ways to approach Celia Rico’s second feature, considering what it has in common with her first. In ‘Journey to a Mother’s Room’, he describes the sometimes suffocating, sometimes emotional and close relationship between a mother and her daughter (Lola Dueñas and Anna Castillo), while in ‘Little Loves’, Another mother and her daughter forced to live together for a summer (Adriana Ozores and María Vázquez).
The first and more critical approach will be based on Rico’s idea that: risky little and he repeated the formula that worked so well in his first film.
Secondly, more positively, seeing the two films as a diptych or variation on the same theme, as if the director, drawing on different characters and situations, has filled in and offered some things left out in the previous film: at the same time, the opposite of some aspects of this.
This new vision, with a name close to Jean Eustache, who made ‘My Little Loves’ in 1974, complex generational relationships It has a different contradiction, it is even more comfortable. It seems that Rico, after pushing the rope a lot in the first one, decided to think about his women and the world with them in a more relaxed way.