Country: Spain
Year: 2018
Duration: 125'
Lila Cassen was the most successful Spanish singer of the nineties until she mysteriously vanished from one day to the next. Ten years later Lila is preparing her triumphant stage comeback; however, shortly before the long-awaited date she is involved in an accident and loses her memory. Violeta’s life is dominated by her conflictive daughter Marta. Every night she finds escape from her reality by doing the only thing that makes her happy: imitating Lila Cassen at the karaoke joint where she works. One day Violeta receives a fascinating offer: to teach Lila Cassen how to be Lila Cassen again.
Biography
film director
Carlos Vermut
(Madrid, 1980) wrote and directed his first feature film Diamond Flash in 2011, which he produced himself and distributed independently. The film won the Rizoma Award and the Best Film Award at Abycine, and received great critical acclaim automatically becaming a cult movie. In 2014 he wrote and directed his second feature film Magical Girl, winning the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film was presented in the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for 7 Goya Awards. With his third feature film, Quién te cantará (2018), presented both at the Toronto and San Sebastian, he built one of the most acclaimed films of Spanish cinema of theyear. Before dedicating himself fully to cinema, he worked as a comic book artist, publishing different comics (Psico Soda, Cosmic Dragon) while producing and directing the short films Maquetas (2009) and Don Pepe Popi (2012). He also wrote the screenplay of Paco Plaza’s La abuela (2021), film selected at the TFF.
FILMOGRAFIA
Michirones (cm, 2009), Maquetas (cm, 2009), Diamond Flash (2011), Don Pepe Popi (cm, 2012), La gran ciudad (cm, video, 2014), Magical Girl (2014), Quién te cantará (Chi canterà per te, 2018), Me envenenas (cm, video, 2019), Mantícora (2022).
Declaration
film director
“It's strange how I feel at ease talking about uncomfortable things, but I have always been fascinated by family violence: how, in that place where you should feel protected, you can feel so scared. This theme emerged as I was writing the screenplay. I began with fame, with a person who can't manage to become famous and feels rejection for her daughter. This daughter feels she doesn't even have her mother's affection and constantly demands her attention. All this springs from frustration; these relationships don't arise from one day to the next. The interrupted relationships between parents and children have been dormant for a long time and you don't know what they originated from and this is why it's very hard to put an end to them. They drag on and one day something serious or a separation happens.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Carlos Vermut. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eduard Grau. FILM EDITING: Marta Velasco. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Clara Álvarez. COSTUME DESIGN: Ana López Cobos. MUSIC: Alberto Iglesias. CAST: Najwa Nimri, Eva Llorach, Carme Elías, Natalia de Molina, Carolina Yuste, Leticia Dolera, Inma Cuevas. PRODUCER: Enrique López Lavigne. PRODUCTION: Apaches Entertainment.
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