Today we will start with good news: congratulations to actress Aina Clotet, who has been awarded the Revelation Prize of the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival. I find the will and capacity of this 44-year-old artist to be constantly working remarkable, now as the director of Viva, the story of a woman who throws herself into living intensely after overcoming cancer. Congratulations to Clotet.

In the first scene of Viva, the opera prima by director Aina Clotet, who also stars in it, the actress appears uncomfortable and naked in the hospital, where the character she plays is undergoing the final test to complete her breast cancer treatment. The close-up of the mastectomy scar is the first sign that Clotet is going all out in this film about the intense desire to live of Nora, a scientific researcher who, after seeing death up close, feels the need to shake up her life and, as one must start somewhere, cheats on her husband with a much younger man with a sculpted physique.

The first film as a director by actress Aina Clotet will premiere in May as part of the Semaine de la Critique, the prestigious French event that takes place parallel to the Cannes Film Festival and has been organized by the French Union of Cinema Critics since 1962. Viva, which is set in a near future marked by extreme drought, stars Clotet herself in the role of a woman who has just turned 40 and is recovering from cancer.

The first film as a director by actress Aina Clotet will premiere in May as part of the Semaine de la Critique, the prestigious French festival that takes place parallel to the Cannes Film Festival and has been organized by the French Union of Film Critics since 1962. Viva, which is set in the near future when Catalonia is suffering from an extreme drought, stars Clotet herself in the role of a woman who has just turned 40 and is recovering from cancer.