The cinema of Mar Coll: catalan inheritances of Eric Rohmer

Abstract

This article makes a brief journey through the filmography of Mar Coll, unknown winner of a Goya award as the representative of an entire generation of Catalan women filmmakers who, working from Barcelona, struggle to emerge from invisibility. Thus, a study of the narrative content of the works that make up the filmography of Mar Coll (La última polaroid, Tres días con la familia y Todos queremos lo mejor para ella) is proposed through a comparative analysis of these with those of the filmmaker of the novelle vague Eric Rohmer, in order to see how the influence that Catalan picks up from the French ends up determining the multiple forms that characterize her cinematographic style. Thus, starting from a story that is woven from the sensitivity of his characters, the cinema of Coll combines a formal proposal that adapts to the circumstances of the conflicts of his narrative universe, creating a differentiated style characterized by a whole series of cinematographic approaches, both recurrent and recognizable.