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Salve Maria (2024)

Salve Maria poster
Directed by
Mar Coll
Genre
drama film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 51m
Rated
16
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 48 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young writer and new mother becomes fixated on a news story about a woman who killed her twin babies. She tries to understand what could drive a mother to such an extreme act.

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What happens

Salve Maria is a 2024 Spanish drama film directed, co-written by Mar Coll starring Laura Weissmahr. Based on the novel Amek ez dute by Basque writer Katixa Agirre, it follows Maria (Weissmahr), a promising young writer and new mother, who becomes obsessed by the case of a woman who drowned her twins in the bathtub. The film competed for Golden Leopard in main competition of 77th Locarno Film Festival and had its world premiere on 8 August 2024. It is mostly shot in Catalan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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