"Eye Two Times Mouth," the latest Miu Miu Women's Tales short film

Vanity, beautification. Power and desire. Dreams and nightmares. Successes and failures. With Miu Miu Women's Tales, the series of short films entrusted to the most intense and original contemporary female writers, Miu Miu continues to explore the complexities and contradictions surrounding womanhood today. The project, which began in 2012, has over the years featured talents such as Chloë Sevigny, Juno Temple, Vanessa Kirby, Liliana Cavani, Tessa Thompson and, for the most recent title, Lila Avilés. The Mexican independent film director, screenwriter and producer, known for the award-winning film The Chambermaid, drew on her love of Madame Butterfly to make Eye Two Times Mouth.

By reinterpreting many common elements between Mexican and Japanese mystical philosophy in the story of Puccini's tragedy's cross-cultural obsession and betrayal, Avilés tells the story of Luz (played by soprano Akemi Endo), a sensible young woman who works in a gallery but dreams of becoming an opera singer and transforming into the woman she wants to be, just as a caterpillar transforms into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly. Eventually, she succeeds, and when we see her on stage at the end of the short film as Cio-Cio San, the protagonist of Puccini's opera, her metamorphosis is complete. A development that fate seemed to have already written into the lines of Luz's body, as we are reminded by her friends Lucian and Chío who, while teaching her to make her voice and hands dance, tell her: "Your mouth is twice as big as your eye."

Eye Two Times Mouth will have its world premiere at the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London on 15 February. The short film will then be available on Miu Miu's digital channels and streaming on MUBI.