Directed by:
Eduardo CasanovaScreenplay:
Eduardo CasanovaCinematography:
Luis Ángel PérezComposer:
Pedro OnettoCast:
Macarena Gómez, Ángela Molina, Ana Polvorosa, María León, Antonio Durán "Morris", Alberto Jo Lee, Meteora Fontana, Daniel Freire, Manel Llunell, Songa ParkPlots(1)
Libertad lives a rosy, problem-free existence, enclosed in a microcosm with just enough room for her and her almost fully-grown son Mateo. Her name might mean “freedom” yet, where her son is concerned, this concept simply isn’t in her vocabulary. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer, yet Libertad's world doesn’t fall apart. On the contrary, she tightens up the rules and binds her son to her in such a way that his sense of self ceases to exist… There are few films which defy all the rules in order to tell an utterly realistic story, and La Piedad is one of them. Director Eduardo Casanova presents a singular, rose-tinted version of reality, where the mother exercises the same kind of power as the dictator governing North Korea. Just as toxic, just as absolute, and just as deadly. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Macarena Gómez
Spain
Best movies:
20 centímetros (2005)
Films to Keep You Awake: To Let (2006) (TV movie)
El calentito (2005)
Ángela Molina
Spain
Best movies:
Live Flesh (1997)
The Unknown Woman (2006)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Ana Polvorosa
Spain
Best movies:
La Pietà (2022)
My Great Night (2015)
A Man of Action (2022)
María León
Spain
Best movies:
The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Carmina or Blow Up (2012)
La Pietà (2022)
Antonio Durán "Morris"
Spain
Best movies:
Cocaine Coast (2018) (series)
Los serrano (2003) (series)
Cell 211 (2009)
Alberto Jo Lee
Spain
Meteora Fontana
Best movies:
La Pietà (2022)
It's Now or Never (2015)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
Daniel Freire
Argentina
Best movies:
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Champions (2018)
The Mudboy (2007)
Manel Llunell
Best movies:
La Pietà (2022)
Valley of the Dead (2020)
Songa Park
Best movies:
La Pietà (2022)