Laura Herrero Garvín
La mami
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La mami

La mami

Laura Herrero Garvín

2019
82 min.
Spain
Spanish
Without subtitles

Mexico City is home to the legendary Barba Azul cabaret.

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Show
Direction
Laura Herrero Garvín
Production
Laura Imperiale , Patricia Franquesa , Laia Zanón
Edition
Lorenzo Mora Salazar , Ana Pfaff
Synopsis

Night after night, La Mami unlocks the door and reveals the guarded restroom of the Cabaret Barba Azul's dancers. After working for more than 40 years in the nightlife, Doña Olga is now La Mami, the caretaker of the women restroom at the mythical Cabaret Barba Azul. Night after night, she takes care of the dancers working at the flow of live music. This restroom is a trusting bubble inside Barba Azul. Today there is a new woman arriving at the restroom. She has a sick son and needs to work.

About the direction
Laura Herrero Garvín

Laura Herrero Garvín

Directora

Laura Herrero Garvín (Toledo, 1985) has a Master's Degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra...

DocsBarcelona Trajectory

2018
Speed Meetings
Edició 2018

Awards and festivals

Festival de San Sebastián
San Sebastián, 2019
D'A
Barcelona, 2020
IDFA
Amsterdam, 2019
Festival de Málaga
Málaga, 2019
DocumentaMadrid
Madrid, 2019
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Reviews

An intimate, often amusing, invariably informative delve into a semi-hidden world - one which very few males ever even glimpse.

— Neil Young · Hollywood Reporter

"La Mami" is rife with sharp, tacit socioeconomic criticism of an unequal, patriarchal society in which making joyless business out of pleasure is the best hope many women have.

— Guy Lodge · Variety

A documentary about who really rule the world. A close up to contemporary survivors.

— Guillem Martinez Oya · Cinematismo
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