LULLABY

Theatrical release: 6th of January 2023

 

Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Cast: Laia Costa, Susi Sánchez, Ramón Barea, Mikel Bustamante 

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Length: 104 min
Rating: 7 years

Synopsis: Amaia has just become a mother and realizes that she doesn’t really know how to be one. When her partner goes away for several weeks because of his job, she decides to go to her parents house, in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country, and to share the responsibility of looking after her baby. What Amaia doesn’t know is that, even though she’s a mother now, she’s still a daughter.

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Press material, stills and poster.

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“It is undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years, a portrait of the role of women within the family, which is truthful, devoid of sentimentality and that does not exclude humor.” - Pedro Almodóvar

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“Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s debut is an absorbing mother-daughter drama set on the Basque coast” - Screen Daily

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“Ruiz de Azúa trains her camera on everyday, domestic life, without any narrative fanfare but with consummate tenderness” - Cineuropa

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“It is cinema that aspires to merge with the surface of the skin” - El Mundo