SAN SEBASTIAN — Lucía Alemany’s “The Innocence” could be called coming of age, a knowing portrait of Lis, 15, hanging out with her friends and carrying in with her older boyfriend in Traige…
” could be called coming of age, a knowing portrait of Lis, 15, hanging out with her friends and carrying in with her older boyfriend in Traigera, a village perched on the Castellón plains of Eastern Spain.
It’s a new wave of conservatism which gives the film its edge, embodied in Liz’s father, her boyfriend, her cowed mother, and a 15 year village gossip in an Instagram age, who is a homophobic bigot. It’s a closed world, stuck in old ways, old traditions. That reluctance to let go of what’s been handed down prevents any kind of vision beyond that. Fear of the unknown, of anything new, of being different. That inquisitorial attitude to anyone who doesn’t fall into line with what is established makes the world Lis lives in a hostile place: Breaking with those norms sets her free.
It’s a step that helps her mother in her own liberation and brings her closer to her daughter. By the end, we see her starting to take the first step. Soledad still has a long way to go. I’m glad those characters are perceived with their subtle nuances, not simply in black and white, because that means that the entire backdrop created for them to be understood, – not judged -, shines through clearly in the film.
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