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Marisa Crespo and Moises Romera’s You Are Not Me is effective as a genre flick, if you can overlook the predictability and allow it some brownie points of creating a persuasive, unnerving sense of atmosphere. Yes, some moves are uninspired but there’s some fun to be had in watching an uptight family unravel, secrets tumbling to the fore, all brought together in a stew of fear and edgy discomfort.

What Romera and Crespo particularly succeed in building is a creeping, amplifying sense of unease, a dread that lingers beneath placid surfaces. The composure and niceties of families come under the scanner, revealing grotesque energies simmering beneath. Who can be trusted? There are all sorts of uncertain elements to be grappled with, realisations to be made peace with, confrontations demanding explanation.

The film hints at dramatic change but weaves them in slow, careful gradations, dropping the scale of it on us in terrifying,...

You Are Not Me (Tú no eres yo) understands the anxiety of holiday family gatherings. It weaponizes it and taps into the fear of rejection and the paranoia stemming from not being loved enough — or at least not in the way one wants. Such is the case for Aitana (Roser Tapias), who’s visiting her parents for Christmas with partner Gabi (Yapoena Silva) and adopted son in tow. Naturally, she expects a warm welcome but her parents — Dori (Pilar Almería) and Oriol (Álvaro Báguena) — are not excited to see her and are put off by her surprise appearance.

The Thriller Plays Up The Anxiety Of Aitana’s Situation

Writer-directors Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera build tension through this complex family relationship. Things get especially heated as Aitana learns her parents have taken in Nadia (Anna Kurikka), a refugee-turned-caretaker for Aitana’s brother (Jorge Motos), and are treating her like more...

"Aitana returns home for the first time in three years, excited to introduce her wife and their adopted infant son to her extended family and celebrate Christmas together. The family villa in the Spanish countryside is exactly as she remembers – except for the addition of Nadia, a Romanian refugee who has claimed Aitana’s bedroom, her clothes, and her family heirlooms. Why have Aitana’s conservative parents, long suspicious of immigrants, embraced the mysterious Nadia with such uncharacteristic warmth? Is Nadia a shrewd usurper, or an unwitting vessel for darker forces spreading across the land? A twisty thriller that locates the uncanny in the reflexive cordiality of the holiday season, You Are Not Me is a dark and disturbing dispatch from the most irrational realm: family."

Written & Directed By Marisa Crespo, Moisés Romera Starring Roser Tapias, Pilar Almeria, Anna Kurikka

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"An exciting new take on Christmas horror." Doppelgänger Releasing has unveiled an official trailer for the Spanish horror thriller film called You Are Not Me, made by two filmmakers from the Valencia region of Spain named Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera. This first premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2023 and it will finally getting released more than year later via Doppelgänger. Aitana returns home for Christmas, the first time after three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with a strange, unknown young woman who is being treated like their daughter. She discovers a disturbing and bloody truth. What could it be?! Are all these people at the Christmas dinner aliens or possessed or what?? This horror film stars Roser Tapias, Álvaro Báguena, and Pilar Almeria. Early reviews state the film is a "decent psychological horror that taps into the anxiety of rejection from those who you believe love you.

A woman returns home for Christmas only to find she’s been replaced with a new stand-in daughter in Spanish thriller You Are Not Me, and our exclusive trailer debut teases that it’s only the start of the dark secrets uncovered this holiday season.

You Are Not Me releases in theaters and on Digital on December 6, 2024.

About the film: “Aitana returns home for the first time in three years, excited to introduce her wife and their adopted infant son to her extended family and celebrate Christmas together. The family villa in the Spanish countryside is exactly as she remembers – except for the addition of Nadia, a Romanian refugee who has claimed Aitana’s bedroom, her clothes, and her family heirlooms. Why have Aitana’s conservative parents, long suspicious of immigrants, embraced the mysterious Nadia with such uncharacteristic warmth? Is Nadia a shrewd usurper, or an unwitting vessel for darker forces spreading across the land?...

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“Our relationship with Diagonal is, and will continue to be, very good. We worked with them hand-in-hand on many productions, including ‘Amar es para siempre’, the predecessor of ‘Dreams of Freedom,’” Atresmedia fiction director, Montse García, told Variety.

The biggest fiction premiere on free-to-air Spanish television in the past two years, racking up a 14.1% market share and 2.0 million viewers on its linear Feb. 25 bow, the daily series opens with a tense chase through lush forests.

Begoña (Natalia Sánchez), with daughter Julia (Amanda Cárdenas) in tow, runs feverishly through the brush and soil to escape her betrothed, Jesús de la Reina (Alain Hernández), meeting his brother Andrés...

You’re Not Me, the feature debut by directors Moisés Romera and Marisa Crespo, has been acquired for worldwide theatrical distribution by Global Screen, per Variety.

The Christmas-set thriller is described as “a dark elevated genre thriller with elements of satire, focusing on two of the filmmakers’ obsessions: family relationships and social differences.”

In the film, “Aitana returns home for Christmas, for the first time in three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with an unknown woman. She is her own age, sleeping in her bed, wearing her clothes, living in her house, and treated by her parents as if she were their daughter. From that moment on, torn by jealousy, suspicion, and misunderstanding, Aitana tries to find out what is happening and who the intruder is that has taken her place in the family – until she discovers an unexpected and disturbing truth that is darker and...