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Direction and script: Mina Mileva y Vesela Kazakova. Interpreters: Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov, Gilda Waugh. Bulgaria, 2019. Duration: 92 minutes. Black comedy.
Actually, the film directed by Kazakova and Mileva is called “Cat in the Wall” (“A cat on the wall”), a title that, seeing the film, is much more appropriate than this long one for which they chose for its premiere in Spain. Because that’s how it is, just like a poor cornered animal, how Irina feels, a single Bulgarian mother who went to London to try little fortune and who lives in a depressing municipal house with the boy and his unemployed brother. Brexit and gentrification dominate in a bleak picture, with no way out.
Irina, an architect, works in a bar and gives up surviving on subsidies like most of the neighbors while fighting to convince them to fight against an unjust system. And all, due to the obligation to change some windows in good condition for others. When a seemingly abandoned feline ends up behind the kitchen wall to the astonishment of the protagonist, the conflict erupts. Realistic, heartbreaking and with a certain documentary aftertaste, the future of these characters, English or not, is as unstable as the country that welcomes them, the same one that one day also decided to isolate itself from the world behind a thick wall that may soon receive only regrets.
The great work that Irina Atanasova does, from containment
Perhaps this hard story would have benefited from being told with greater passion
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