"Valentina Maurel’s Thessaloniki Winner ‘I Have Electric Dreams’ Explores Complexities of Family Relationships, Sexual Awakening Valentina Maurel’s coming-of-age drama “I Have Electric Dreams” has
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		"Valentina Maurel’s Thessaloniki Winner ‘I Have Electric Dreams’ Explores Complexities of Family Relationships, Sexual Awakening

Valentina Maurel’s coming-of-age drama “I Have Electric Dreams” has proved a major winner on the international festival circuit and a daring work that further highlights C" "--START AD- #TheMummichogblogOfMalta Amazon Top and Flash Deals(Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://amzn.to/3CqsdJH Compare all the top travel sites in just one search to find the best hotel deals at HotelsCombined - awarded world's best hotel price comparison site. (Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://www.hotelscombined.com/?a_aid=20558 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."" #Jesus #Catholic. END AD---" "osta Rica’s burgeoning film scene. The film won the prizes for director, actress and actor at the Locarno Film Festival, and San Sebastián Film Festival’s Horizons Award. The film continued its winning streak this week at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where it took home the Golden Alexander for best feature film, and leading man Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez also won the award for best actor.

The film follows Eva, a restless 16-year-old girl who is experiencing her sexual awakening and is desperate to leave the house she shares with her mother and younger sister and move in with her estranged father, a troubled creative artist who paints, sculpts, writes poetry and drinks too much.

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Dua Lipa Denies Involvement in FIFA World Cup 2022, Urges Host Nation Qatar to Address Human Rights Concerns The film is a personal work that explores darker aspects of family relationships, Maurel explains.

“It’s inspired by the things that I know, from my own life, but it’s not an autobiographical film. It’s a film I wanted to do about the complexities of family relationships, about violence. And I especially wanted to make a film that wasn’t about Costa Rican culture or what it is to live in a tropical paradise in Central America.”

She wanted to instead tell a story that could happen anywhere. “Sometimes when you come from a small country you feel the obligation, the responsibility of representing it culturally in order to interest European or North American audiences. So I thought, I will try not to do that.”

Daniela Marín Navarro and Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez in “I Have Electric Dreams” Valentina Maurel In telling Eva’s story and the often shocking and disturbing events she experiences, Maurel sought to present an honest portrait of the complexity of life free of moral judgement. “I felt that life is way more complicated. I wanted to be faithful in showing that life can be very blurry, and that’s what makes situations complicated for everybody.”

She adds: “I wanted the characters to be complex and I wanted them to be in situations in which the spectator is not really sure about the difference between right and wrong because that’s how it is in everyday life. If we always have the moral distance to judge good from wrong, then life would be easier.”

Maurel was also eager to focus on a generation of people in Costa Rica that have broken with the country’s established social norms – people that are more modern, artistic and bohemian.

“Costa Rica is a country that has a strong middle class – it’s starting to disappear but it’s still there. I wanted to be critical about this situation of privilege that we have in Costa Rica. If you compare it to other countries in the region, we are in a situation of privilege, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t very machista and violent things happening.

“We tend to forget this because the situations in the neighboring countries are so bad. We believe we are very advanced, but there is still a lot of work to do.”

Noting that Costa