Creatura

It's an great coming-of-age movie from Elena Martín Gimeno that explores interesting themes of female sexuality, social taboos, and the challenges aspects of societal norms with strong performances from the cast, great direction and good writing.

The writing contains difficult themes that may be challenging for some but the writing does a good job on exploring these themes without feeling all over the place and the structure felt balanced and appropriate. Exploring themes of social taboos, sex, family, Spanish culture and the exploration between women and men are well-executed and engaging to explore. Many of the performances were pretty good as the performances help to create an interesting emotional connection between the characters and the settings.

The direction from Elena Martín Gimeno is strong as Gimeno is able to provide strong sense of atmospheres and narratives within the movie and is pretty brave on exploring the difficult topics pretty well. The camerawork is beautiful and the dialogue, while at times can be a little clunky, felt realistic and thoughtful.

Overall, Elena Martín Gimeno does a great job on her first debut feature.