
Seeing isn’t always believing in The Chapel, the latest film from Piggy writer/director Carlota Pereda. Written by Pereda, as well as Albert Bertran Bas and Carmelo Viera, The Chapel is a supernatural drama about intergenerational trauma between mothers and their daughters.
The film opens in 1631 in a small Spanish town that is besieged by the Black Plague. Men in plague masks gather up sick individuals to lock them in the titular chapel to preserve the health of the community and, as the crowd watches, a young, infected Uxoa (Alba Hernández) is separated from her mother, who refuses to help.
The moment of familial discomfort is upended, however, when a member of the crowd raises a smartphone to shoot video of the event, shattering the authenticity of the moment. It turns out what we’re seeing is a historical reenactment: these are actors who are playing a part in an annual five day festival.
The film opens in 1631 in a small Spanish town that is besieged by the Black Plague. Men in plague masks gather up sick individuals to lock them in the titular chapel to preserve the health of the community and, as the crowd watches, a young, infected Uxoa (Alba Hernández) is separated from her mother, who refuses to help.
The moment of familial discomfort is upended, however, when a member of the crowd raises a smartphone to shoot video of the event, shattering the authenticity of the moment. It turns out what we’re seeing is a historical reenactment: these are actors who are playing a part in an annual five day festival.
- 7/24/2024
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com

La ermita
Not too many filmmakers on our list will have three film outputs in just as many years but this appears to be the case for madrileños filmmaker Carlota Pereda. After collective project The Devil’s Tail (2021) and Sundance breakout Piggy (2022), Pereda moved into Basque backdrop for La ermita. Production on her sophomore film took place in October with Belén Rueda toplining. Maia Zaitegi, Josean Bengoetxea, Loreto Mauleón, Jon Olivares, Elena Irureta and Nagore Aranburu also star in a tale of about a medium tormented by her past. Laura Fernández produces the project.
Gist: This tells the story of how Emma (Maia Zaitegi) who wants to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a girl who has been trapped in a hermitage for centuries, and to that end, she tries to persuade Carol (Rueda), a sceptical medium, to help her.…...
Not too many filmmakers on our list will have three film outputs in just as many years but this appears to be the case for madrileños filmmaker Carlota Pereda. After collective project The Devil’s Tail (2021) and Sundance breakout Piggy (2022), Pereda moved into Basque backdrop for La ermita. Production on her sophomore film took place in October with Belén Rueda toplining. Maia Zaitegi, Josean Bengoetxea, Loreto Mauleón, Jon Olivares, Elena Irureta and Nagore Aranburu also star in a tale of about a medium tormented by her past. Laura Fernández produces the project.
Gist: This tells the story of how Emma (Maia Zaitegi) who wants to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a girl who has been trapped in a hermitage for centuries, and to that end, she tries to persuade Carol (Rueda), a sceptical medium, to help her.…...
- 1/10/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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