Soy Nevenka

I admired this film. It's the real story of Nevenka, who was on stage at the preview at the London Film Festival, and whom we applaud for the courage it certainly took to take her own destiny in her hands, during that difficult trial in the 90s.

Young Nevenka has the openness, the earnestness and the honesty of youth; she is capable, clever and hardworking, but she evolves in a world run by men, for men. Her value is only perceived for the usefulness she can bring to them: as a scapegoat, a ghost writer, a trophy lover. It's not so surprising that the exploitation of her qualities soon turns sexual.

It's a harrowing watch, but taut and superbly depicted, and for those who like me were alive at the time, a scary mirror reflecting our past lives, from which we can only retract and shudder in shame.