CinemaAttic is proud to present two films by María Luisa Bemberg, presented at Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh Filmhouse, in collaboration with Cinema Rediscovered and Cinema Mentiré.

In Nobody’s Wife (Señora de nadie) Leonor is an upper-middle-class, committed housewife whose comfortable life falls apart when she learns of her husband’s infidelity. With more fear than conviction, she sets out on a voyage of self-discovery. It is an act born of integrity, a refusal to live a lie, but as her encounters with family and economic institutions reinforce her social non-existence, it becomes a gesture of active resistance. Made under the military regime, the story of Leonor’s move from a family home and a blind life centred on pleasing others to a desire to create a life outside “the system” was dangerously challenging to the symbolic order in place. Bemberg struggled for five years to get her script approved by censors, who saw her criticism extending from family to state, and Leonor as an emblem of rupture.

This screening will have a short prerecorded introduction from Amina Farley Yael (Cinema Mentiré)

📅 9th December – 20.30
📍 Filmhouse, Lothian Road

Accessibility

This film will screen with descriptive subtitles, transcribing both dialogue and key sounds and other key audio information from the film

This screening is wheelchair accessible