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The film cloak of gems, an Argentine-Mexican co-production that won the Silver Bear (Jury Prize) at the latest Berlin International Film Festival, will premiere in Buenos Aires. First film by the Bolivian-Mexican director Natalia López Gallardo, it will have seven unique functions in the Sala Leopoldo Lugones of the San Martín Theater, from Thursday 7 July to Friday 15 July.
The film had its world premiere at the 72nd edition in Berlin, held last February. In addition to being a director, López Gallardo has a long career as an actress and editor and has edited films by directors of the stature of Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reyes and Amat Escalante.
A drama about violence in Mexico
The plot of this drama about violence rooted in Mexico focuses on several women. In the midst of a brutal and silent divorce, a high society woman named Isabel takes refuge with her two children in her family’s home on the outskirts of town.
The film deals with the violence rooted in Mexico and focuses on several women. Photo Press
As soon as they arrive, they discover that María’s sister, the housekeeper, has gone missing, forcing María to get involved in dirty business with Adan, the son of Roberta, a local police officer. Torn by the need to help, Isabel joins Maria on a desperate search and in a hostile world that is not hers. Roberta is the police who remain in charge of the investigation.
And as he searches for clues to find the missing woman’s whereabouts, he tries to keep his son away from the signs recruiting him. As time runs out, the three women embark on a path of pain and transformation.
The vision of Lopez Gallardo
López Gallardo wrote, directed and edited cloak of gems. After winning the Silver Bear, the director reflected on what she wanted to show, emphasizing the need to look and think about others and create a sense of community.
Roberta, the policewoman who, in turn, tries to keep her son away from the signs that recruit him.
“I think that without taking care of others, without paying attention to the group (…) it is difficult to grow up,” he said after receiving the award, referring to his story, which portrays a community without a future and without a common project.
The La Paz-born director added that what she admires about Germany is the “sense of community building,” something she complains is lacking in today’s Mexico. And she dedicated the award to the people of the Mexican state of Morelos, for their generosity and for sharing their visions of life with them.
He has lived in Mexico for more than twenty years, the last 13 he has lived in Morelos. And she said that for his film she was inspired by the life stories of that Mexican state. “I have witnessed the progressive collapse of the social fabric,” she explained.
The director, born in Bolivia, lives in Mexico and lives in Morelos.
“I have two children and I imagine, almost dreaming, through the fog, the daily life of parents with killed or missing children, which is enough to bring me the darkest sadness,” he reflected. At the Berlinale, López Gallardo thanked the jury’s decision for his love for her “for the particularity of cinema and the idiosyncrasies of cinema as an experience”.
The award was seen as yet another sign of the international attention that Mexican filmmakers have begun to receive in an industry that for years has recognized great Aztec directors such as William Del ToroAlejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón.
what the critics said
With Nailea Norvind, Antonia Olivares and Aida Roa, cloak of gems It has garnered excellent reviews internationally.
“It is a disturbing, disturbing work, a panel of psychopathological evocations in which guilt, horror and shame poison the environment. Exactly what is happening is something that has to be deduced through indirect clues and confusing indications; these facts are never definitively revealed, “she wrote. Keeper.
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“But that darkness isn’t a first-time director’s fault. There is ferocity and seriousness in the way the director deals with the buried and denied crimes of the state of Mexico and the Mexican ruling classes. The film acquires the dimensions of a tragedy, ”added the critic of that British medium, Peter Bradshaw.
“The beauty of photography cloak of gems is based more on a contemplative crudeness, whose few concessions impress with their plastic expressiveness, either through the chaotic camera in hand in the absence of artificial light, or in a more aesthetic composition, with a dreamlike element, practically Lynchian “, judged the Mexican trade magazine EAM cinema.
“This is a great debut. Huge in both its narrative and thematic ambition, and mature in its technical construction. The exquisiteness of the whole can only come from the excellence of its director, who demonstrates a solid command of the cinematographic language ”, added critic Luis Enrique Forero Varela.
The only 7 unique functions of cloak of gems in the Sala Leopoldo Lugones of the San Martín Theater will be: Thursday 7, Friday 8 and Sunday 10, at 21:00. And Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13, Thursday 14 and Friday 15, at 18:00.
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Source: Clarin
