The Red Virgin

Aurora Rodríguez gives birth to a child and raises her as a project: the woman of the future. Hildegart reads at three, studies law at fourteen, is known across Europe by twenty for what she has written on female sexuality, and enters politics in the Spain of the thirties. Then, when she wants a life of her own, her mother treats it as betrayal and kills her. Paula Ortiz made the film from the real case and treats the subject not as a murder but as where absolute control arrives. Najwa Nimri plays the mother. The period design and the dark interiors are the visual signature. It screened in the official selection at San Sebastián. Who it is for: viewers who like true biography and drama built on women's history. Who it is not for: anyone wanting an easy watch, since the film knows its ending from the start.