Daniela Fejerman, Elvira Lindo’s Malaga Film Festival Opener ‘Someone Who Takes Care of Me’ Celebrates Actors, Embraces Women With HIV

variety.com:

Ed Meza @edmezavar Daniela Fejerman and Elvira Lindo’s “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” a celebration of actors, their passion, craft and historical legacy, opened this year’s Malaga Film Festival in a fitting tribute to the Spanish entertainment industry.

The film, which screened out of competition, centers on three women whose careers have spanned stage, film and television, actresses of different generations whose fortunes in life have greatly differed and who struggle with untold secrets and unresolved conflicts.

Aura Garrido stars as Nora, a young, award-winning actress with a promising future who carefully balances between the two main pillars in her life, her grandmother Lilith (Magüi Mira), who reigned for decades as a renowned theater star, and her mother Cecilia (Emma Suárez), whose career has languished after having achieved some glory in the 1980s, a decade of excess in which she heavily partook.

As Nora experiences success in her burgeoning career, the three women deal with misunderstood love, jealousy and mutual dependence. “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” Fejerman and Lindo tell Variety, was “inspired by that type of woman who lived her youth intensely in the ’80s and on whom life has taken its toll. “Her daughter has always considered her somewhat irresponsible, somewhat frivolous, somewhat banal, until something happens for her to begin to inquire about the past of that woman, her mother, whom she really knows very little.” Lindo says the story she wrote “was really meant to be made into a movie.