Taking place in different timelines, the plot explores the plight of a family of queer vampire sisters and their descendants, facing the issue of human blood contamination in the Europe devastated by the Black Plague, and centuries later, in 1980s HIV-stricken Spain.[1]
Alfonso Rivera of Cineuropa wrote that Silence's "striking imagery", "delirious dialogue and histrionic performances refuse to be tamed or pigeonholed. They are pure rebellion, just like the characters themselves".[7]
While the miniseries had no guaranteed distribution at the time of its Locarno presentation, the use of inclusive language in the dialogues managed to polarise social media users, with some applauding it as a coherent choice in line with the artistic proposal while other decrying it as a "gratuitous provocation."[8]
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
