Tengo sueños eléctricos

After a prologue tinged with violence, an ellipsis marks the breakdown of Eva’s family. As her mother tries to build a new home for her daughters, her father doesn’t seem very interested in assuming responsibility. But Eva, in pure adolescent turmoil, sees her relationship with him as a chance of crossing the limit that separates her from adulthood and approaching what she imagines to be freedom. Driven by desire, she plunges into a world of adults as disoriented as she is, in which risks she can’t foresee creep up on her. Without oversimplifying or giving simple answers, with editing and camerawork capable of shaping both violence and affection and intimacy, Valentina Maurel submerges us in a mother-daughter bond marked by ambiguity and passage to adulthood in which perhaps the only thing there is to learn is that no one really knows how to live.