52 Films by Women Vol 8. 33. Un Amor (Director: Isabel Coixet)
Pictured : 'I prefer working on the inside to working on the outside.' Interpreter Nat ( Laia Costa ) is gripped by Andreas 'the German' ( Hovik Keuchkerian ) in the Spanish drama, ' Un Amor ', adapted from Sara Mesa 's 2020 novel by Laura Ferrero and director Isabel Coixet . Still courtesy of Imagine Film Distribution (Belgium) There is a trope in romantic dramas about mending the broken. Spanish director Isabel Coixet explores this in her adaptation of Sara Mesa’s novel, Un Amor . In it, Nat ( Laia Costa ), a young interpreter who works for an NGO, quits her job to retreat to a small village in a rural part of Spain, where everybody knows everyone else. The house Nat moves into needs a lot of work, but it is all Nat can afford. Her landlord Casero ( Luis Bermejo ) gives her the dog to match; it has a scarred face from ‘looking at something it shouldn’t’. There’s a pound nearby from which dogs bark at night. ‘I don’t hear them anymore,’ the grumpily mena...