LA PIETÀ

LA PIEDAD

By Eduardo CASANOVA

STRASBOURG EUROPEAN FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2022

Lili and Mateo are mother and son who have a profound relationship of mutual dependence. The indulge in their suffocating reality until one of them is diagnosed with a fatal illness. The mere idea of separation causes them to develop their darkest and most toxic version of themselves.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2022
Spanish Screenings On Tour
Karlovy Vary 2022
Proxima Special Jury Award
Fantasia FF 2022
Audience award
Fantastic Fest 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Second film, Black comedy
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Eduardo CASANOVA
    • Synopsis
    • After the controversial and already cult Skins, Álex de la Iglesia presents LA PIETÀ, the second film by visionary director Eduardo Casanova, recently awarded at Karlovy Vary with the Special Jury Award of the Proxima section.

      "La Pietà" is about power, and submission then to the extreme; about the capacity and need human begins have to control their own creation, other people, and even an entire country. A universal story about how to separate ourselves from our roots: abandoning everything to evolve or to save ourselves, even knowing that the darkest part of us we leave behind stays with us, in our DNA.