No Winter Holidays

Once married to the same man, two women in their seventies must forget the past and work together to look after an empty, snowbound village for the whole winter.
Once married to the same man, two women in their seventies must forget the past and work together to look after an empty, snowbound village for the whole winter.
[Sheffield '23] Through observation kept from a distance, the film crafts a portrait of two women, too concerned with the representation of space as an environment that shapes the personalities of Ratima and Kalima differently. This confrontation of characters between these widows who are condemned to live together because one day they were chosen as wives by the same man, even builds some funny moments, but above all it establishes a clever look around old age, the dependence on women and female rivalry caused by a patriarchal society.
[Sheffield '23] Through observation kept from a distance, the film crafts a portrait of two women, too concerned with the representation of space as an environment that shapes the personalities of Ratima and Kalima differently. This confrontation of characters between these widows who are condemned to live together because one day they were chosen as wives by the same man, even builds some funny moments, but above all it establishes a clever look around old age, the dependence on women and female rivalry caused by a patriarchal society.