This Film is About Me

Alexis Delgado presents a singular portrait of Renata Felicitas Soskey, in prison for the brutal murder of her neighbor: a woman's face in the foreground, a theatrical aura, a cinematic magnetism, an almost supernatural glow...

Alexis Delgado presents a unique portrait of Renata Felicitas Soskey, in prison for the brutal murder of her neighbor. This is a surprisingly playful exercise between a filmmaker and a recluse with the mannerisms of a star from another time and a dark undercurrent.

Renata is a movie star tailor-made for the film that Alexis Delgado imagines, the Gloria Swanson of his particular Sunset Boulevard, although we are not in the decadent Californian mansion chosen by Billy Wilder in 1950 but in the Galician prison where Renata is serving a sentence for a brutal murder.