debutante Eva Victor surprises and convinces with a peaceful drama about sexual abuse

It wasn’t easy surprise and convince tackling a topic so common in contemporary audiovisuals as sexual abuse. Repeating with reason, we just have to attend to the current political reality of our country with high-profile events both in PP and PSOE and also in the police chamber.

Without further ado, Spanish cinema will be available in 2025 The fury (Gemma Blasco), a film similar to its prejudices Sorry, honey: Look at the light dark wounds that an experience of this nature generates in every person.

However, in Gemma Blasco’s debut, it goes the way of the disturbing and the eschatological, with a stage call that strikes before the impact, Victor’s film has everything calm and emotional. Two formally completely antagonistic proposals and very meritorious.

In any case, Victor’s film is not juguetona. Starting with the generic package of an indie drama like this, the film introduces elements of different genres that bring slight tonal variations to Agnes’ story. She is a brilliant young woman and with charm she is trying to make her way at a small university in New England in the field of literature.

Compiled through chapters that interrupt the timeline, We are waiting to see how the aggression that the protagonist is looking for is produced, and above all its consequences.

Here, the greatest evidence of Victor’s talent lies precisely in how we tell about sexual abuse: we describe him first in off – only we see the protagonist entering the house and now going upstairs – and later we realize that Agnes is the one who tells her friend Lydia (Naomi Ackie), the exact form, somewhat distant, forcing the viewer’s imagination to work.

The film takes place in the state of Maine, the home and literary territory of Stephen King, as we say, It brings back genre elements like terror – the main character lives in the house, in which cruel stories take place at night – but also in the cinema of comedy – she is invited to a drama – or a romantic comedy – she maintains an unbalanced relationship with a neighbor, committed but simple in life – or university – the cheerful character of Natasha (Kelly McCormack), Agnes’ envious companion.

Everything is aimed at the perfection of Eva Victorová, so that she can understand in front of the viewerr protagonist’s psyche healedalso worth considering are the useful dialogues, which hint a lot and hide a little. Something the director will ask in the final scene, never scripted, never raw. A sentimental coup detracts from the rest of the film.

A small slide that will not fail in any way intimate and intimate complex that brings life with trauma.