De Cinema x MoMu x EUROPALIA: Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos

Following the audiovisual installation RESOLUCIÓN: On lifetime decisions in Spanish cinema, De Cinema and EUROPALIA present a film cycle of the same name, featuring seven remarkable films from Spain, the guest country of EUROPALIA 2025. Each film revolves around a single colour. Each colour reveals something about womanhood and the era in which the film was made. Blue symbolizes freedom. Think of women who divorce, pursue careers and break free from societal norms.

A young and prestigious television director must undergo emergency surgery. Professionally, she has succeeded, but her love life has been a failure, and she feels alone. In these moments of anguish, she reflects on her life and her relationships with men and family. She cannot avoid evoking the great platonic love of her youth: Gary Cooper.

Pilar Miró, along with her colleagues Josefina Molina (Función de noche, 1981) and Cecilia Bartolomé (¡Vámonos, Bárbara!, 1978), also present in the video installation RESOLUCIÓN: On lifetime decisions in Spanish cinema was one of the great pioneers in portraying the liberated woman in Spain’s Transition period. These three films became cinematic manifestos of a new femininity: women who rebel against traditional roles, question marriage, motherhood, and the place assigned by a patriarchal society. Rebel women who, for the first time in Spain, would wear jeans.