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Director Benito Zambrano configures a female fable that addresses many themes, perhaps too many, but from a harmonious and transparent perspective in which Elia Galera and Eva Martín shine.
‘Lemon bread with poppy seeds’
Address Benito zambrano
Interpreters Elia Galera Eva Martín, Mariona Pagès, Marilu Marini, Tommy Schlesser, Claudia Faci, Pere Arquillué, Pep Tosar
Year 2021
Premiere November 12, 2021
★★★
In Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Love, a veteran master chef specializing in traditional Chinese cuisine tried to preserve the values of his trade through his daughters. The three women came together to prepare the dishes and, in the process, exorcised their personal ghosts amid spices and tears. Some of that is also in ‘Lemon bread with poppy seeds’, a story of women who meet again and try to recover a recipe from the past while trying to solve their problems of the present.
Benito zambrano returns to the cinema of feelings (after the impasse of ‘Outdoor’) in this film that works as a fable about family relationships, motherhood, classism, secrets that are perpetuated in time, commitment, machismo, sisterhood, illness and death. Indeed, it may seem like too many themes, but the virtue of ‘Lemon bread with poppy seeds’ is that all these elements are integrated harmoniously in a transparent narrative punctuated by precise interpretations of Elia Galera and Eva Martín that make the literary text take on a real, sensitive and exciting dimension.
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It is a bittersweet film, small and honest, that appeals to the poetic of manners without being excessively Manichean or maudlin. Everything seems to fall into place in a natural way, although many of the situations are difficult to believe, but the important thing is that within that world that is configured, it works. And that has a lot of merit.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com