La mujer sin piano portrays a typical early 21st century housewife in Madrid. The heroine is a married woman who likes nothing better than the great personal satisfaction of seeing a steaming dish served on the dinner table with admirable punctuality. The movie follows 24 hours in her domestic, working and sexual life, a life from which she decides to escape one night, narrating the events falling within the parenthesis of her evasion. Some may say that this is a film on a housewife’s alienation and slavery, but in fact it’s the tale of a woman, on the threshold of menopause, with neither friends nor social life, who has dedicated her entire life to the family, who doesn’t consider herself to be pretty, who doesn’t like her hair, who allows herself to be carried along on the flow of a single night.
Javier Rebollo
From 1996 until 2002, while he was directing large-format documentaries for TVE, he shot a cycle of short films on the character and actress, Lola Dueñas, culminating in 2006 with the feature Ce que je sais de Lola. Premiered in the Official Selection at San Sebastian Festival, this film landed a Goya nomination for Best New Director, the FIPRESCI Prize at London Festival, Grand Prix at the Marseilles and Seoul fests, plus the Best First Work Award at Guadalajara (Mexico) and Chicago. La mujer sin piano is his second feature.
Director:
Javier Rebollo
Screenplay:
Javier Rebollo, Lola Mayo
Production:
Stefan Schmitz, María Zamora, Damián ParísAvalon Productora Cinematográfica S.L.Plza. del Cordón, 2-bajo izq.28005 MadridTel +34 91 366 43 64Fax +34 91 365 93 01info@avalonproductions.esLolita Films S.L.Olivar, 21-1º C28012 MadridTel/Fax +34 91
Co-Production:
Noodles (Francia)
Photography:
Santiago Racaj
Edition:
Ángel Hernández Zoido
Cast:
Carmen Machi, Jan Budar, Pep Ricart, Nadia de Santiago
Sales:
RTVE (Laura García Ortega)Ed. Prado del Rey, Despacho 1/161Av. Radiotv, 428223 MadridTel 34 91 581 78 01Fax 34 91 581 78 13laura.garcia@rtve.es
Running Time:
95 m.
CONCHA DE PLATA AL MEJOR DIRECTOR. JAVIER REBOLLO por "LA MUJER SIN PIANO" (España- Francia)
MENCIÓN ESPECIAL TVE OTRA MIRADA. LA MUJER SIN PIANO, Javier Rebollo (España-Francia)
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