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A House on Fire (Casa en flames, 2024) is a Spanish tragicomedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Dani de la Orden gathers a scattered family back under one roof on the Costa Brava, with Emma Vilarasau as the mother who still believes she can hold them together.
Montse has been divorced for years. Her grown children barely register that she exists. So she stages a weekend at the seaside house — one last try at feeling like a family before the place gets sold. Two days is all it takes for everything to surface: buried resentments, her ex-husband's new partner, secrets people sat on for far too long. Everyone arrives with baggage that won't stay zipped. Vilarasau carries the whole thing, playing Montse as funny and exasperating in exactly the way real mothers can be.
The film toured the festival circuit and turned Vilarasau into one of the most talked-about faces in recent Catalan cinema. It is a family comedy with a bitter aftertaste — light right up to the moment it stings. Made for anyone who likes a real drama hiding behind the jokes. Stream A House on Fire (2024) online on iFILM.
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