In Detail

Carmencita (Macarena García) is the newborn daughter of celebrated matador Antonio Villalta (Daniel Giménez Cacho), but her flamenco-singer/dancer mother did not survive the birth. Grief-stricken, Villalta rejects the newborn and falls into the open arms of his nurse, Encarna (Maribel Verdú), who will eventually become Carmencita’s cruel, power-crazed stepmother.

The film examines the more populist elements of Spanish film history and reflects in a personal and refreshingly nostalgia-free manner, on the country, its history and its traditions through the prism of international film history. You may recognise the writer-director Pablo Berger as he recently created the critically acclaimed animation ‘Robot Dreams’.

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