The Dead Mother
Released: 1993
Drama, Crime
Ismael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, and the daughter Leire (Alvarez) has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home. A chance meeting between Leire and Ismael, who now works in a bar, leads Ismael to think that she still ight be able to recognise him, and turn him in to the police. With the help of his girlfriend Maite (Lio), he kidnaps Leire and chains her to the bed in his house. He is unable to kill her, however, and instead asks the mental home for a ransom for her return. Whilst a prisoner, though, Leire and Ismael grow closer and closer through his attempts to make her laugh and their mutual love for chocolate.
Starring: Karra Elejalde, Ana Álvarez, Lio, Silvia Marsó, Elena Irureta, Ramón Barea, Gregoria Mangas, Marisol Sáez
Directed by: Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Written by: Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Eduardo Bajo Ulloa
Language: Spanish
Scenes
The nurse Blanca (Silvia Marsó) mentions to the hospital administrator that she has a bladder control problem. She is shown running off to the bathroom with her hands at her crotch in two or three scenes.
Blanca is trying to rescue a kidnapped girl (Leire, played by Ana Álvarez) when the kidnapper Ismael (Karra Elejalde) comes into the room and sits down (not seeing her hiding behind the furniture). While waiting for him to leave, Blanca pees through her jeans and the pee trickles audibly onto the floor. The puddle is shown flowing almost to Ismael's foot before he decides to get up and leave.
Ismael emerges from the bathroom with the sound of the toilet flushing in the background.
Blanca is confronted by Ismael's wife Maite (played by Lio) while trying to rescue the girl, and she pees on the floor again in fright. The camera shows her pee falling off her leg and hitting the ground, and blood mixing with the pee as Maite slashes her.
Ismael accidentally steps in Leire's chamber pot and tips it over on the floor.