Characters with their own conflicts, dilemmas, setbacks, fears and desires, mistakes and successes. They are lesbians, but they are also much more. There is no condescension in how the protagonists are narrated. Carmona reflects things as they are in life, without moralising or exemplifying pretensions, with truth. There is something about that unique complicity of friendship that pervades it. It is partly from this game of mirrors between the fictional and the real that the magic and sincerity of the film emanates. As well as being artists, the girlfriends are also friends in real life and this is very present in the film, in the director's way of seeing and narrating. In doing so, the filmmaker presents a suggestive dialogue between fiction and reality. Also with the fictions through which we try to tell our own stories, with cinema, music and the other arts.
Girlfriends and Girlfriends above all addresses friendship, its relationship with love and desire, its complexity.
The director herself plays a neurotic young woman obsessed with love, full of doubts and insecurities, who, after a break-up, returns to the Catalan capital where she gets back in touch with an old friend who will introduce her to her circle of friends, artists such as the filmmaker Alba Cros, the musician Rocío Saiz and the singer Aroa. Now the love game occurs between a group of friends in the queer and culture vulture environment of Barcelona.
Carmona adds a twist to the French filmmaker's approach to recreate it and bring it to her own country. As its title suggests, Girlfriends and Girlfriends is a very free and bold homage to Éric Rohmer's film.
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