The duel also has its social conventions. He cries, suffers and dresses in black. One gets at home and closes doors and windows, as if it were Bernarda Alba. However, there are many ways to overcome pain, and not all are well seen. Milena Busquets spoke about this in This will also happenwhere she told in the form of self -fiction – although her character was called Blanca the author talked about herself – how a woman faced the loss of her mother. I did it by putting what love and care they had shared. He also did it from friends, human and sex touch to move forward.
Busquets’s reflections and words are explicitly heard in their film adaptation. An off voice maintains the style of the writer while its director, María Ripoll, is committed to a luminous film, everything that is not expected of a film about the duel. Thus accompanies Marina Salas, the protagonist who also contributes his energy to a project that was born as a commission from Morena Films to the director, who already read the novel felt razed by her (her mother had just died) and wanted to adapt her.
