Two young people at a bus station, a ticket to nowhere and backpacks loaded with dreams of independence and flea market clothes. It was 1995, they swore that we were already modern because we had European highways and design spread from domestic interior design to bar counter design, but many women did not discover that other ethical and aesthetic realities were possible until Iciar Bollain portrayed Silke and Candela Peña under naturalistic lighting that highlighted real skin and the dark circles from the trip in Hello, are you alone? The female representation that still oscillated lazily between the inheritance of the selfless saint of Franco's developmentalism and the late balance of the uncovering, two sides of the same coin minted by the male eye, was blown up thanks to them. Actresses born in the seventies, reaching professional peak in the early nineties, a pivotal generation that arrived to occupy the frame and evict the stylist. More than a generic replacement, theirs felt like a demolition of the state cosmetics. A cultural refoundation.
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