Natalia López Gallardo’s characteristic directorial debut revolves round a lacking individual case — and the three girls whose lives collide due to it. A trailer has arrived for “Gown of Gems,” which is screening in competitors on the Berlinale.
The atmospheric spot is gentle on plot particulars however heavy with pressure and dread. There are quite a few veiled references to — and outright warnings of — hazard. “She doesn’t know who she’s searching for or what she’s moving into,” we hear. One character is instructed, “You don’t get how issues work right here.” One other stresses, “I don’t need any bother.”
In line with Deadline, “Gown of Gems” facilities on the soon-to-be-divorced Isabel (Nailea Norvind), who tries to assist her housekeeper María (Antonia Olivares) discover her lacking sister. “In the meantime, Roberta (Aida Roa), the native police commander, hopes to rescue her son from the prison underworld, and finally ends up crossing paths with Isabel and María. Their destinies come collectively in a world of confusion and abandonment the place, regardless of all of it, the human spirit to insurgent in opposition to misfortune persists,” the supply describes.
Gallardo instructed Girls and Hollywood that the thought for the movie “got here to me throughout a interval of analysis after I had a number of encounters with moms which have lacking youngsters. After the interviews, I drove again dwelling feeling one thing uncomfortable that I couldn’t describe at that second. Then I spotted it’s a form of guilt. Driving and remembering the tales that I’ve heard, I felt the impossibility of feeling, no less than partially, the ache of the mother and father with lacking youngsters,” she defined. “That feeling was the impulse power that [motivated] me via the method of this movie. That feeling made me notice additionally that I didn’t wish to use the instruments of cinema to make a social or political assertion, however to attempt to strategy the non secular wound attributable to this tragedy.”
Gallardo’s quick movie “In heaven as it’s on Earth” was chosen for Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2007. She has edited options together with “The Darkness,” “Jauja,” and “Heli.”
No phrase on a theatrical launch for “Gown of Gems” simply but. The Berlinale will run via February 20.
Supply: Women And Hollywood