+ intro and post-screening conversation

Dir. Cecilia Bartolomé
1978 | 95 mins | Spain
Spanish

Amparo Soler Leal, Jose Ruiz Lifante, Julieta Serrano

SHOWING TIMES:

• Thu 25 May: 7.30pm

Ana – a wife, mother and advertising executive in her forties, with a comfortable life in a bourgeois Catalan family – rips up the rules when she decides to inject a bit of truth into her existence and take back control of her life. To the horror of her family, Ana decides to leave her husband and head off on a road trip to the coast, taking her 12-year-old daughter Bárbara with her. Down by the sea, conventions melt away as Ana enjoys her newfound freedom.

Director and screenwriter Cecilia Bartolomé is one of the most transgressive women filmmakers of her time. She graduated from Spain’s Official Film School in 1969, but not until after the death of Franco and the return to democracy was she able to make this feature film.

The screening will be hosted by members of the Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television 1970-1980 project team: Professor Sally Faulkner, Dr Jara Fernández-Meneses and Professor Nuria Triana-Toribio.

This event is supported by the Centre for Translating Cultures, University of Exeter and the ‘Invisibles e insumisas / Invisíveis e insubmissas: Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television,1970-1980’ project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

With thanks to ¡Viva! Festival, Manchester and Video Mercury, Madrid.

Ticket prices

£8* Standard | £5* Student / Under 25s

£5 tickets for University of Exeter staff

£1 tickets for University of Exeter students

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>