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‘Mamífera’ Review: Engaging, Well-Acted Spanish Drama About an Unexpected Pregnancy
Awarded at SXSW, Liliana Torres’ timely Catalan dramedy 'Mamifera' is a sensitive and inclusive exploration of the choice to live childfree.
In this short but intimate sequence, writer-director Liliana Torres conjures worlds of easy, contented empathy between two people who know each other’s bodies very well indeed, but have not grown remotely tired of one another. It’s worlds away from the experience of Lola’s friend Judit (Ruth Llopis), who is coincidentally trying to conceive via IVF, and is caught in a treadmill of hormones and the torture of the so-called two-week wait, as she prays that embryo implantation has been successful. She is a warm, well-adjusted, capable adult, working as an art professor, happy in her stable relationship with Bruno, and from many people’s perspectives, including her abortion clinic consultant, an ideal candidate for motherhood.
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