Time of Moulting crowned 'Best Film' at Seville

16/11/2020

The FIPRESCI jury honored Sabrina Mertens' Time of Moulting with the Best Film Award in the Endless Revolutions section at the Sevillle European Film Festival. 

“The FIPRESCI jury was impressed by the precision and meticulousness, reminiscent of a watchmaker, with which the director Sabrina Mertens evokes the suffocating universe of the family in which her heroine lives. The monotony of everyday life, in the closed universe of the house in which she grows up, her repressed feelings, the obsessive-compulsive depressions of her collector mother, the house like a bunker from which nothing is thrown, not even the slaughtering pigs tools of the grandfather, proudly kept in an old chest, all are analyzed as if under a microscope by the camera, in a narrative unfolding reminiscent of the fixed frame of some photos from an old album. The film surprises! As it unfolds, the viewer is at first amazed, then outraged, shocked, suffocated, but captivated by these people with mental disorders, who live in a micro universe reminiscent of the universal macro in which we all live.”