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6.2/10 • 38

2025-05-281h 33m

Drama

Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid.

Directors
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Writters
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Editors
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Mark Towns

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Emma Mackey

    Emma Mackey

    Sofia

  2. Fiona Shaw

    Fiona Shaw

    Rose

  3. Vincent Perez

    Vincent Perez

    Gomez

  4. Vicky Krieps

    Vicky Krieps

    Ingrid

  5. Patsy Ferran

    Patsy Ferran

    Nurse Julieta

  6. Yann Gael

    Yann Gael

    Matty

  7. Vangelis Mourikis

    Vangelis Mourikis

    Christos

  8. Electra Sarri

    Electra Sarri

    Woman on beach

  9. Yorgos Tsiantoulas

    Yorgos Tsiantoulas

    Man on beach

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CinemaSerf

Jul 2, 2025

6/10

This does come to quite an head in the last five minutes and there’s a solid performance from Fiona Shaw at times too, but otherwise I struggled to see much point in this rather shallow drama. “Rose” (Shaw) hasn’t been able to walk for almost twenty years so has mortgaged her house so she can attend a specialist clinic run by “Gomez” (Vincent Perez). She is accompanied by her daughter “Sophia” (Emma Mackey) who, whilst she obviously loves her mother, is clearly a bit fed up being her constant carer. I think that fairly swiftly we can deduce something of the nature of the older woman’s problems, but that isn’t really the crux of this story. That has more to do with “Sophia” and her relationship with “Ingrid” (Vicky Krieps) whose enigmatic personality and character entrance and infuriate her, even more so when her friend “Matty” (Yang Gael) shows up to muddy the already pretty confused waters. With this uninteresting scenario bubbling along lethargically and Shaw just complaining about the water the whole time, we are now largely left to furnish the story with our own interpretation of what we think is most likely going on and then, certainly in my case, ask just why I ought to care one way or the other. The raffia-mafia have had a hand in the characterisation of “Ingrid” and I’m afraid that even though it’s filmed on a lovely Greek beach I just couldn’t get into it. It’s had some decent effort put into the production, but it will look fine on a winter’s evening on the television. Not so much hot, more tepid.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
spainbased on novel or bookcoming of agetravelillnesslgbtliterary adaptationwoman directormother daughter relationship