Carmen & Lola
(2018)
★ 7 IMDb · 185 votes
Year: 2018
Runtime: 103 мин
Country: Spain
Director: Arantxa Echevarría
Cast: Rosy Rodriguez, Zaira Romero, Moreno Borja, Rafaela León, Carolina Yuste, Juan José Jiménez, Jacqueline Jiménez, Lucas Heredia, Sandra Toral, Carolina África
Plot
Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
17-year-old Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid and works with her family in a street market. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. She gets engaged to Rafa. But one day she meets 16-year-old Lola, an uncommon gypsy girl who dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti and likes girls. She also helps her family in the street market. They quickly develop a complicity with each other and discover a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.