2020 Film Festival
film synopsis
Bisexual Emilia, an aspiring actress in her mid-thirties who recently moved back home to save money, has hit something of a quarter-life crisis a few years later than most. Or maybe she’s only just now realizing that most of her girlfriends from college have started settling down with kids, spouses and careers. As the judgmental asides and glances from her maturing friends start to combine with her new girlfriend’s frustration with her inability to settle down, Emilia starts to take stock of her life before she loses the people who care about her most. Shot in a mixture of black-and-white and color, and playing like a cross between Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, this winning sophomore feature from Ruth Caudeli (Eva + Candela, PSIFF 2019), which she co-wrote with her dynamic lead actor Silvia Varón, is a sexy existential comedy about a magnetic young woman at a crossroads in life.