FROME FILM CLUB JULY FILM: SUMMER 1993

Director: Carla Simón, Spain 2017, 97 minutes, Cert 12A Following the death of her parents, six-year-old Frida leaves her grandparents in Barcelona for the countryside, where she is to live with her uncle, aunt and younger cousin. Exploring the unfamiliar rural world and still burdened by the trauma of her huge loss, she struggles to settle into her new life and adoptive family. A beautifully crafted, dreamlike but unsentimental autobiographical drama in the Catalan language, with an extraordinary central performance and a seductively evocative sense of time and place.

Event no 1017