Sorda: a film that touches the heart (review)
Multi-award winning at the last Goyas, this first Spanish feature film depicts with great finesse the arrival of a hearing baby in a couple, whose wife is deaf.
Angela and Hector have loved each other with unclouded love for almost 3 years and are preparing to have their first child… without suspecting that this happiness will reveal hitherto invisible flaws in their relationship. Because Angela is deaf and Hector is hearing. And the arrival of this baby and her education will day after day give rise to doubts in her. First on his ability to establish a bond with his daughter, who an examination reveals is hearing, then indirectly on the balance of his relationship, Hector spontaneously spending more time with their child with whom he communicates more easily than her. Sorda recounts this shift in the style of Chinese torture with great finesse. Where the accumulation of small wounds felt by Angela, feeling returned to her condition but initially silenced, will end up exploding.
Eva Libertad Garcia, inspired by the story of her sister who is also hearing impaired, is captivated by her ability to go against the idea of a motherhood that would necessarily be happy and fulfilling. Thanks to character writing that never cuts corners. And to an astonishing work on the sound which will gradually make us hear the world as Angela hears it and physically feel her loneliness and the feeling of injustice in the face of a loving Hector. Carried by the remarkable interpretation of Miriam Garlo, Sorda touches the heart.
