San Sebastian Award-Winner Celia Rico Talks Málaga Competition Title ‘Little Loves’: ‘I Want to Show Mothers and Daughters With Nuance’
variety.comHolly Jones Simmering inner turmoil, regret and a relationship on the mend feature as themes in “Little Loves” (“Los Pequeños Amores”), Spanish filmmaker Celia Rico‘s anticipated second feature, which premiered in competition this week at the Málaga Film Festival.
Rico’s 2018 feature debut, “Journey to a Mother’s Room,” won the Youth Jury Award at San Sebastian Film Festival, and received a Special Mention in the New Directors competition.
Sold by Latido (“The Beasts”), “Little Loves” opens with Ani (Adriana Ozores), an independent woman with a sharp tongue and a knack for living as she pleases.
When she injures herself attempting to paint her sprawling countryside home, her globetrotting middle-aged and single daughter Teresa (María Vázquez) sacrifices a Massachusetts holiday to aid in her recovery. “I want to think that the women we’re directing show mothers and daughters on the screen with nuance; we bring them closer to the people we are, the people who surround us: complex, contradictory, strong and vulnerable at the same time, with beautiful wrinkles, menopause and loves that have perpetuated some gender mandates that need questioning,” Rico tells Variety.
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