Rebecca Lenkiewicz, a prolific 57-year-old filmmaker, has a notable career as a playwright and screenwriter. Her recent projects include 'The Salt Path' and her directorial debut 'Hot Milk,' adapted from Deborah Levy's novel. The film features Sofia, a 25-year-old navigating her first romantic feelings for a woman while caring for her wheelchair-bound mother in Spain. Themes of sexuality, personal struggle, and identity are central as Sofia reflects on her life choices amid her mother's psychological struggles. Jellyfish symbolism represents deeper emotions and desires that intertwine with Sofia's journey.
"Sofia is in an incredibly febrile time. She knows she loves women, but this is the first woman she's fallen in love with. Everything's on fire. There's dreams, there's lust, there's sensuality. It's all coming together."
"I've had seven films made from screenplays, but I've written far more. When I'm feeling down, I think, 'How many of my scripts actually get made?'"
In one sequence, jellyfish are prominent because they're a creature that has no heart or brain, only appetite, and so are a symbol for sex and lust.
A wannabe anthropologist, Sofia has put her studies and social life on pause so that her wheelchair-bound mother can visit a clinic in Spain.
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