The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 70% of the 6,870 2020s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In early 1990s Spain, eleven-year-old Celia lives with her mother and studies at a convent school in Zaragoza. When Brisa, a confident new classmate from Barcelona, arrives, Celia is drawn into a world that challenges the strict religious teachings and sheltered life she has known. Their friendship pushes her to confront hidden truths at home and the uncertainties of adolescence, leading her to explore questions of identity, independence, and belonging.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
122 audience votes
Key crew
- Pilar PalomeroDirector
- Pilar PalomeroWriter
- Carlos NayaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Andrea FandosCelia
- Natalia de MolinaAdela
- Zoé ArnaoBrisa
- Julia SierraCristina
- Francesca PiñónMother Consuelo
- Leonor BrunaDoctor
- Ainara NietoClara
- Elisa MartínezLeyre
- Carlota GurpeguiVanessa
- Mercè MarinéOfelia
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Themes
pubertyadolescencefemale friendshipcoming of agecatholic schoolconvent schoolschoolgirlpre-teenreligious communitymother daughter relationshipgirlhoodcatholic schoolgirl