The relationship between art and reality has rarely been explored with as much panache as in this stylish, bracingly candid portrait of creative breakthroughs and personal choices set against the backdrop of Barcelona's theater community. Thespian Júlia Berkowitz (Anna Azcona) is ready for her directorial debut, but is there a play out there that can capture her imagination? Enter Marina (writer-director Balletbò-Coll), a lovelorn TV editor with a provocative pet project: a no-holds-barred account of the obsessive and nearly incestuous bond between 18th Century French socialite Madame de Sévigné and her daughter. As they begin rewriting the text, both women enter into an intense collaborative process. Why does this material resonate so strongly with Júlia? The aspiring stage director has plenty to deal with between married life to revered theater critic husband Gerardo and an ongoing affair with Ignasi, the handsome programmer at the Public Theater. Julia decides to bare her soul to collaborator Marina, who begins to fall for her ostensibly hetero colleague. Heralded by some as Catalonia’s answer to Woody Allen, Balletbò-Coll returns with the follow-up to her 1995 hit, Costa Brava. With more dramatic plot twists in the lives of the characters than in the taboo play they are penning Sévigné is an insightful, deeply satisfying look at this play called Life. In Spanish and Catalán with English subtitles

Marta Balletbo-Coll is a Spanish actress, writer and director. Her first film, Costa Brava: A Family Album won the Audience Favorite Feature Film award at the 1995 Frameline - San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

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