The Regent's Wife

A slow, suffocating portrait of a woman trapped by marriage and gossip, simmering with repressed desire and quiet dread.

Directed by

Mar Coll

Genres

Drama

Starring

Ester Expósito, Vito Sanz, Oriol Pla

Overview

In the provincial city of Vetusta, Ana Ozores is young, beautiful and married off to Victor Quintanar, a man twice her age and ex magistrate of Vetusta, a sleepy stifling provincial city where everything is known and everything is judged. Seeking sense to her loveless existence, Ana attracts the predatorial lust of Magistral Fermín de Pas, her sensual confessor at La Vetusta cathedral, as well as the attentions of local Don Juan Álvaro Mejías.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, dark and romantic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, gender, faith, obsession

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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