Salve Maria

Maria, a promising young writer and new mother, stumbles upon a chilling headline: a French woman has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub. The gruesome act seizes Maria’s imagination, becoming an obsession. Why did she do it? From that moment, the specter of infanticide looms over Maria’s life as a haunting possibility.

Laura Weissmahr won the Goya award for Best New Actress for her portrait of Maria in Mar Coll’s third feature film, a tense and compelling drama on taboo emotions.

Mar Coll immerses us in the daily life of a woman obsessed with filicide, spiraling into a nightmarish world that also incorporates literary play, mythology, classical tragedies, and a wealth of layers between reality and imagination, the primal and the primal. A dark, profoundly disturbing, and suffocating work, it addresses motherhood and postpartum depression in a groundbreaking way, venturing into the realms of thriller and psychological horror to become one of the most courageous films in recent Spanish cinema.

Beatriz Martinez, Fotogramas

A powerful psychological thriller.

Elsa Fernandez-Santos, El Pais

A powerful and sensitive take on a tremendously difficult subject, one that is often flirted with in film but rarely addressed so directly.

Jonathan Holland, Screen International