Mother

Shown in the main competition of the Venice Festival's Ema Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Silver Bear for El Club) is a cinematic rollercoaster starring the magnetic Mariana Di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal.

Elusive as a flame, the seductive Ema lights a fire wherever she appears. Dancing is a whole life for her - for her passion she is ready to sacrifice literally everything. Together with her choreographer-husband, she makes a controversial decision, through which her old world collapses, and on the ruins of the old order a completely new one grows - where women can dance as they want, the family is not determined by kinship and everyone creates a choreography of his own life himself. In the new world, Ema loses herself even more strongly in sexual, aggressive reggaeton.

Larraín's film is a manifesto of a new cinema that listens to the pulse of life, learns the language of a new generation. Instead of telling a story, he dances.