Casa de nadie

How do you showEurope’s ageing? Ingrid Guardiola, a cultural activist making her debut as a filmmaker, and her accomplices decided to film in a retirement home in one ofBarcelona’s neighbourhoods and at a depopulated mining colony located in León. It could take place in other locations, but these ones make themselves significant, revealing and examplary through a sensitive and respectful look attentive to the gesture and words of those that inhabit them. A poetic document of our time. A portrait where, as is common in humanist cinema, shows the faces as a moral category. Solitude and abandon are present, as well as the sense of community. Resignation and dignity. This phrase may sump up their spirit: “Even though life may not be the party you expected it to be, never lose the will to dance.” “No one’s home”: everyone’s home. (Gijón International Film Festival)