
Anabel is a high-class old lady who lives happily in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her businessman husband Bernabé and their daughter Greta. But during a dinner party organized by Anabel, she sees for the first time in 30 years Chiara, her daughter from her first marriage, disguised as a staff member. Chiara reveals herself to her mother and asks if they can spend 10 days together. Anabel offers Chiara money instead, but when she refuses, a reluctant Anabel ... (Full plot summary below)
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Anabel is a high-class old lady who lives happily in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her businessman husband Bernabé and their daughter Greta. But during a dinner party organized by Anabel, she sees for the first time in 30 years Chiara, her daughter from her first marriage, disguised as a staff member. Chiara reveals herself to her mother and asks if they can spend 10 days together. Anabel offers Chiara money instead, but when she refuses, a reluctant Anabel gives in to the request. They go to the isolated house they used to live in with Chiara's father, located in a little town in the French Pyrenees. Strangers to each other, Anabel and Chiara spend the days in uncomfortable situations; Anabel tries to learn the reason for her daughter's request, Chiara keeps silent about it. Anabel finds herself reliving her youth and trying to get to know her daughter again. Then Chiara finally reveals the real reason she wanted to spend time with her mother and makes a new request to an off-guard Anabel.
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| IndieWireEric KohnIt’s a powerful look at the durability of parent-child bonds as well as a fascinating psychological thriller about what it takes to heal such a rift when it seems irreparable. |
| Screen InternationalWendy IdeSunday’s Illness doesn’t put a foot wrong. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergWith breathtaking elegance and stunning assurance, Ramón Salazar takes a melodramatic chestnut and makes it flower with unexpected emotion in Sunday’s Illness. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandThis story about the reunion, following a 35-year abandonment, of a mother and daughter, marvelously played by Spanish actors Susi Sanchez and Barbara Lennie, respectively, is slow but never ponderous, clear in its outlines but never simplistic, and elegantly crafted without being stifling. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe often-tense mother-daughter dance of recrimination and forgiveness is spectacularly acted. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSalazar’s deliberateness of image and tone can sometimes feel like its own archly overemphasized meaning, but it’s never less than an artfully sincere companion to the drama of missing years and reconsidered choices that fortifies Sunday’s Illness. |