The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman applies make-up to two kittens. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar. These events are commonplace for this seemingly normal family, revealing the fine line they live between fragility and absurdity. In the meantime, their country Bulgaria is shaken up by anti-gender and anti-equality protests with an undercurrent of violence. These women are united by a shared trauma, but now they are ready to confront their father’s troubling past.
Ratings
IMDb5.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Mina MilevaWriter
- Vesela KazakovaWriter
- Bilyana KazakovaWriter
- Vesela KazakovaDirector
- Mina MilevaDirector
Cast
- Maria BakalovaSonja
- Vesela KazakovaYoana
- Iossif SurchadzhievThe Father
- Diana SpasovaDidi
- Bilyana KazakovaVeronica
- Dobriela PopovaTina
- Rositca GevrenovaMaria
- Ralitsa StoyanovaLora
- Katia KazakovaAna
- Jerome GodfreyGeorgi
- Dragomir KostadinovDrago
- Yavor KostovThe Gynecologist