This Film is About Me

Alexis Delgado presents a unique portrait of Renata Felicitas Soskey, in prison for the brutal murder of her neighbour: a woman's face in the foreground, a theatrical aura, a cinematic magnetism, an almost supernatural glow ... It is a surprisingly playful exercise between a filmmaker and a recluse with star-like ways from another time and a dark undertone. Renata is a movie star made to measure for the film that Alexis Delgado imagines, the Gloria Swanson of her particular Sunset Boulevard, although we are not in the decadent Californian mansion chosen by Billy Wilder in 1950 but in the Galician jail where Renata is serving a sentence for a brutal murder.