Robe of Gems

Sold out
Address Koperníkova 56, Plzeň
Origin Argentina, Mexico
Original name Diamantový plášť
Movie genre Drama
Entry CZK 150
Venue's website www.johancentrum.cz
Length 118 min
Director Natalia López
Links IMDB
Release 2022
Takes place during Be2can 2022 Pilsen
Ranking 52 %

Performing: Nailea Norvind, Antonia Olivares, Aida Roa, Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño

Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is now bare and neglected. Isabel and her husband are growing apart, and their children are increasingly worried about them. Maria’s sister’s disappearance has left her family in distress and forced her to engage in criminal activities with Adan, the son of a local policeman. Isabel decides to go on a dangerous quest, neglecting her own children, as well as her housekeeper’s warning that she does not understand how things work in Mexico’s poorer regions.

Perfectly rendered in wide-framed images and unobtrusively fluid camerawork, the violence is muted and more social and psychological than physical in this first feature directed by Natalia López Gallardo, who has worked as an editor with Amat Escalante, Lisandro Alonso and Carlos Reygadas. Her ensemble film mixes realism, dreams and metaphors in which all the characters experience varying degrees of loss and abandonment. Every day, family members are disappearing through the cracks in society. But those who are most damaged are the ones who have lost a sense of what it means to have a home.

Movie trailer

Manto de gemas  Official trailer  0 5 1:40 1 ×

© 2024 GoOut