I Am Nevenka

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Marco L @decatur555 Feb 7, 2025 This film captures its heroine's anguish and suffering with an emotional precision that hits hard. Mireia Oriol shines as Nevenka, conveying both the vulnerability and the strength of a woman up against a hostile environment. Urko Olazabal gives a performance that provokes instant rejection, filling the screen with the same intensity he showed in Detective Touré and Maixabel. At times the film could have gone deeper into its characters' nuances, but it keeps the tension and shows respect for the real events it portrays. Icíar Bollaín directs with great care. It may feel cold to some, but she puts the focus on the story itself and on her protagonist's dignity. Some say it lacks risk or has an almost academic approach. Maybe so, but it does what it sets out to do: bring a key story in the fight against harassment in Spain into the open. It makes you think and leaves a mark, mostly thanks to its powerful performances. See more Genni P @RT39281080 Oct 28, 2024 Essential viewing, this is a conscientiously-made and well documented portrayal of a real-life politician boss and his abuse of power towards a young woman employee, Nevenka, making her life hell on earth because, while achieving an excellent work record she rejected him after a short relationship which she quickly regretted and tried to exit from, to concentrate on her career. Her subsequent legal action against her boss was not only unprecendented and beyond brave (he was hugely popular in his home district), but impacted on her life afterwards so that she paid a massive personal and professional price for speaking out. Excellent acting and thoroughly absorbing, this true story set in Spain over twenty years ago could not be more topical, today in the UK and in so many countries across the world. The film generates discussion and merits viewing as widely as possible by women and men, politicians and bosses, employees, parents, school and college teachers and students. As the director says, these situations are happening to women every day but the change is that now the responses are different - women are being listened to and some action taken to investigate and expose the perpetrators of such abuses of power. The film also highlights how colleagues and some friends who witness inappropriate behaviour or verbal bullying shy away from speaking out or villify the victim. Now that many more women and some men too are speaking out, such abuses are being taken seriously. A film that is altogether powerful and truly deserves to be seen internationally. See more Fred O @Fredox Oct 23, 2024 A very strong and moving true story about a young woman being abused by her boss, a high ranking Spanish political figure, before #metoo time. Behind the camera, a talented female filmmaker who does a very serious job to make us feel the physical pain of sexual harassment. See more Read all reviews

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