Know for his deliberately difficult art-house films it’s with this move away tragi-drama bliss where we’re left scratching our head thinking why the hell is this not in the running for the Palme d’Or? Being moderately familiar with his cinema having only caught the depressing Solitary Fragments at the festival in 2007 (he would offer Beautiful Youth to the Un Certain Regard section in 2014) it’s the Directors’ Fortnight folks who got to program Petra a chaptered film treat that moves into cesspool terrain. We were on hand the post screening world premiere presentation of Jaime Rosales‘ sixth feature film with starlets Marisa Paredes and Bárbara Lennie minus Àlex Brendemühl on hand. In English and in Spanish.
