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Mar Coll’s Locarno Title ‘Salve Maria’ Pictures a Mother Who Fears Her Own Monstrosity
Selected for Locarno’s main international competition, “Salve Maria’ marks a career departure for Coll, her first psychological thriller.
In “Salve Maria,” which world premieres in main international competition at Locarno, Coll questions a taboo, even for many in 2024: Whether all women are cut out for motherhood. Largely directing her earlier works in a naturalist mode, “Salve Maria” marks a career departure, casting the film as a genre-bending psychological thriller. The decision to make a psychological thriller plays out throughout the film: In its retro air, 35mm format and a pulsating, omnipresent orchestral soundtrack, composed by Zeltia Montes, a Spanish Academy Goya best original score winner for Javier Bardem starrer “The Good Boss”; the gathering air of deliriousness as Maria stops hiding her neurosis, taking off to the Pyrenees to find Alice; scenes of sheer fantasy.
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