Few emotions as genuinely heartbreaking as losing a loved one and not being able to raise their heads. The origin of This will also happenthe movie and the homonymous book on which it is based, is that of the exploration of the duel of a woman who has serious difficulties in resuming her life after her mother’s death.
The premise is called to connect with any spectator because sooner or later we are condemned to go through the same thing and it should be easy to walk in the shoes of our protagonist, but nothing further.
As if a long, tedious and depressing letter, a tired voice of off is spinning in a circle around emotional pain, the anxiety before the lack of the maternal figure that was in turn intellectual compass and model to follow, despite its disagreements.
This inner dialogue is rewriting moments and trying to transfer the depth of the soul of a broken person, but nevertheless has an erratic, capricious, selfish and even Snob behavior. Which results in very complicated to empathize: The spectator will recognize the situations, but the tone will not allow him to “enter” the story easily.
In every corner I see your shadow
Blanca has just turned 40 when her mother dies, a very relevant figure of the Catalan intellectuality thanks to her work as an editor and her level of self -examination. In addition to dealing with sadness, he feels that he has lost the lighthouse that guided her.
To escape his pain and avoid thinking, he takes refuge in sex with his lover and ex -partner but does not refuse the possibility of starting new relationships with other people.
Balance, he feels empty, as if he had extended his childhood without being completely responsible for his life and suddenly had to assume an imposed orphanhood. Several couples who came out frog, two children and a lightness in their way of living that does not allow them to establish true and durable links with anyone.
With escaping once again, he decides to travel with some friends to his mother’s summer house in the little but lovely fishermen’s people in Cadaqués. There they will emerge new conflicts, as memories lead you to establish a constant dialogue with that influential and charismatic maternal figure.
Nothing to object to the work of María Ripoll as director: he squeezes her actors and He takes a great game to the beautiful shooting locations, which reinforce the message by antithesis. What happens within the protagonist is quite ugly compared to the idyllic beaches and the beautiful places of recreation that serve as a backdrop.
Marina Salas The character is his and brings him the narcissistic point that makes it difficult to swallow (and that is not accidental, of course) and is very well accompanied by a ghostician Susi Sánchez in the role of the absent mother who fails to release. They also surround here in small roles Carlos Cuevas, Borja Espinosa, Sara Embigul or Andrea Trepat.
Although This will also happen It lasts 106 minutes, we must recognize that the film becomes very long. The issue is complicated, the approach too. The optics from which the story comes to us is so tarnished that it is depressing and banal at the same time.
We never really believe that sadness that seems more pose and need to get the attention than real duel: the constant flirting is very enervating through a histrionic laugh and forced as hollow as everything else. So if there is something that is missing, it is honest humanity and a depth in emotions
Said which seems that superficiality is imposed by the material of origin: Milena Tusquets’s own novel. You have to assess your self -criticism to explore your less friendly side in the relationship with your mother and be able to present itself so disadvantage. But the film is left over and lacks heart.
