MotherThe best new fiction film I saw at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January exemplifies what makes the festival special: A dedication to films of soul-warm fragility whose fineness is so rare that such movies are unfairly assumed to be unfit for wider exposure. The Slovenian film Mother, by director Vlado Škafar, premiered there and deserves to travel far afield: its tenderness, flushed with inquisitive compassion, should be recognizable anywhere. It is called “mother,” after all. We see her, we understand: Nataša Tic Ralijan’s athletic, middle-aged woman has closely shaved graying hair and holds herself with that certain kind of independence that suggests a desire to be alone. Yet she is not alone. She is bringing her daughter home and the two are silent, the relationship strained. The home is in the countryside, and the daughter is locked in her room. But this is not the younger one's story,...
- 5/9/2016
- MUBI
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