We All Want What's Best for Her

Mar Coll was born in Barcelona. Shestudied at the film school ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya), from which she graduated with a degree in film direction. For her final year project she made the short film La ultimaPolaroid, selected in the student films competition of the 20th edition of Premiers Plans. Tots volem el millor per aella is her second feature film, after Tres dies amb la familia.When we started writing Tots volem el millor per a ella we thought of it as a drama. We started with the story of a couple of acquaintances who had suffered an injury and imagine the horrible process of trying to rebuild their personality like someone who tries to assemble the pieces of a broken vase. Geni is thus born as a character doomed to fail: the reassembled vase can never be exactly the same.As we were shaping the film with the idea of turning this starting point into something more hopeful, we realised that it was precisely this natural inability to fully conform to convention, not because of ideology but because of incomprehension, which held the character's authenticity and purity. Something that, to some extent, places her above those who expect something else from her. Paradoxically, Geni's erratic behaviour is what ends up questioning the values and ways of the world around her. Thus, ‘poor Geni' slowly becomes a character who is geni-al in her confusion, fun, impulsive, empathic, tender and, at times, even clairvoyant. The result is that the drama we started off with has become a more eclectic film that, while containing a harsh look at our world, has succumbed to the energetic force of its main character, thus becoming freer, fresher and more conciliatory as the film unravels.