Title: La Maternal
Year: 2022
Running Time: 100′
Country: Spain
Directed by: Pilar Palomero
Written by: Pilar Palomero
Starring: Carla Quílez; Ángela Cervantes; Jordan Cornejo; Clàudia Dalmau; Estel Collado; Claudia Medina
© 2022 Aragon TV / BTeam Prods / Barrixica / Inicia Films / Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC) / Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) / Moonlight Cinema Barcelona / Movistar+ / Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) / Televisió de Catalunya (TV3).
Review by Guifré Margarit i Contel | 01 July 2023
A part from Carla Quílez’s amazing performance, the true highlight of the movie is the naturalism of the conversations and dialogues.
Nevertheless, on the other end of Pilar Palomero’s choice of using non-professional actors, and real-life teenage mothers that give this verisimilitude, we find the more fiction part of the plot, which although it understandably tries to convey the swing moods of the young Carla, it makes the story in itself a bit to chaotic.
