Journey Around Mother's Room's reviews
Media reviews
Fotogramas
A movie about women, impressively performed by Dueñas and that great Anna Castillo who, step by step will became the best actress of her generation,the movie inspire truth and warmth. And also a narrative maturity that a lot of directors with a more extense career would want to have.
Cinemanía
Celia Rico Clavellino teaches us what's the cinema with no needs of big sets, practically without getting out of the four walls of a room, following cleverly each of the characters when the narratives asks for it. [?] Lola Dueñas and Anna Castillo make theirs this mother and daughter in each movement, each look, in a contained registrer, almost castilian spanish, that have nothing to do with their usual roles.
El País
Celia Rico, great writer and debut director, has composed in 'Viaje al cuarto de una madre' a ode to the trascendence of simplicity, to the complexity of the familiar relations, exposed through a style with the paradox as a brand-name: brilliant in the inside, and a mix between gray and brown on the outside. The gloomy colours of a relationship beyond life and death.
El Periódico
Spanish director Celia Rico Clavelino's debut rests in her memory, regarding some aspects about the relationship with her mother, in the work of the two main actresses, Anna Castillo (the daughter) and Lola Dueñas (the mother); in a measured tone, with no shaking even in the most tense moments between them, and in the simple and true way that tells us the fear of saying the thing you know the other person don't want to hear.