The Open Door (Spanish: La puerta abierta) is a 2016 Spanish tragicomedy film written and directed by Marina Seresesky which stars Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez and Asier Etxeandia.
Plot
Rosa (a prostitute), lives with her mother (a former prostitute which whom she does not get along) in a flat in Madrid. They are torn about adopting the daughter of another prostitute who died because of an overdose.
Written and directed by Marina Seresesky, The Open Door is her feature film's directorial debut. The film was produced by Meridional Producciones and Chester Media Producciones alongside Stop&Play, Babilonia Films and MilCiclos, with the participation of Telemadrid.[2] Shooting took place in Madrid, specifically in a corrala in the Calle de Santa Brígida [es] from December 2014 to February 2015.[2]
Reviewing for The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Holland deemed the film to be "an admirably abrasive by-women-for-women drama that works just fine until it starts to pull its punches later on".[5]
Pere Vall of Fotogramas gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing about the talented and (carefully directed) cast.[1]
Quim Casas of El Periódico de Catalunya gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, considering that, good intentions notwithstanding, it belongs to a type of cinema that is already outdated, "solidarity between people on the edge (hookers, transvestites, drug addicts) and very little else".[6]
Sergio F. Pinilla of Cinemanía gave it 3 out of 5 stars, noting an evolution from previous shorts films by Seresesky, who is right on betting on a less neutral than voyeuristic point of view.[7]