Following a car accident, Roberto is left grieving the death of his wife and raising his emotionally distant yet self-sacrificing daughter Alejandra alone. The broken family uproots their lives and moves from a city by the sea to Mexico City in hopes of starting anew.
»After Lucia« focuses on Alejandra as she simultaneously attempts to deal with both her mother’s death and a drunken mistake that renders her the target of mental and physical abuse from her classmates. Through its telling of Alejandra’s story, the film highlights the true effects of isolation and degradation that teenage bullying yields.
Much as in his previous feature, director Michel Franco weaves a delicate tapestry of conflict and compliance, stylistically channeling dogma-esque realism through the static mise-en-scène and absence of music. Full of moments of both introspective reflection and interpersonal qualms, »After Lucia« continuously searches for the point at which resistance should end and retaliation should begin.
LEWIS PAYNE
- Title
- After Lucia
- Director
- Michel Franco
- Country
- Mexico, France
- Length
- 93 min
- Festival
- 2012
- Section
- Competition
- Language
- Spanish
- Subtitle
- English
- Premiere status
- Nordic Premiere
- Production year
- 2012
- Original title
- Después de Lucía
- Cast
- Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr. and Tamara Yazbek
- Producer
- Marco Polo Constandse
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