Margarita y el lobo

Inspired by the style of the French New Wave, Margarita y el lobo depicts the separation of Margarita, a young student, and Lorenzo, the son of a family loyal to the Franco regime. Cecilia Bartolomé’s deeply feminist film, her graduation project at Madrid’s film school, was a slap in the face to the ultra-conservative and Catholic society of Francoist Spain, which confined women to the domestic sphere and considered divorce unacceptable. The regime tried to destroy the film and blacklisted Bartolomé. A perfect example of just how subversive musicals can be.

As a supporting film, we’re screening the musical short Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido by Pedro Almodóvar, in which a woman is abandoned by her husband and has to do everything she can to feed her children. This anarchistic work was originally conceived as a promotional trailer for Almodóvar’s feature ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?.