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AS FAUCES FEROCES
A combination of fiction and historical reality, The Fierce Jaws links a reflection on the mother-daughter relationship with an episode from history - the trial of Italian nun Benedetta Carlini during the Counter-reformation. Caught between guilt and victimisation, a woman writes against her mother and about her relationship with someone who passed quickly through her life, leaving destruction behind her. Benedetta prostrates herself before Bartolomea and rests beside the body of her lover. Across the centuries that separate them, these four women - and a fifth and sixth we learn about - form a tableau on the subject of motherhood, sexuality, diversity and free will. A wild and intimate tale, from four women who speak to each other and about one another as a way to find themselves.