In Muertes y Maravillas, screened in the 2023 competition, Diego Soto filmed the entry. of poetry into life, into youth. A Heart as Willing revisits this eruption using other parameters: no longer literature but cinema, no longer youth but the white-haired years of its heroine. Nieves (“Snow”), who runs a guesthouse that the filmmaker chooses for the shoot of his adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. When the filmmaker casts Nieves and the man courting her for his film, A Heart as Willing becomes the watchful story of a rebirth, splendidly embodied by a face that suddenly lights up with the thrill of a movie kiss. With economy and finesse, Diego Soto fits a world of cinema into the garden of a house.
Aisha Rahim
European premiere
