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‘Beloved Tropic’ Review: Paulina García Shines in Tender Drama
The 'Gloria' star and Jenny Navarrete shine in Ana Endara’s sensitive narrative debut, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
It is her worsening condition rather than the genuine bond that they forge that leads Jimena to offer Ana Maria a full-time position, an indication of the kind of relationship Mechi has with her children, who have used her wealth to distance themselves from her, leaving an empty house besides her maid Cristina. While it makes sense for Ana Maria to go through the motions of pretending to be pregnant for appearances’ sake, her solitary visits to a maternity clinic where chitchat with fellow patients inevitably reveals thoughts on parenthood start to seem awkwardly incorporated to serve a main idea rather than the story, looking even more out of form when Endara generally finds graceful ways into her characters’ heads and summon the world around them. Occasionally taking Ana Maria back to her past in Columbia with the mere sound of the ocean and presenting Mechi’s decline in the expressions of others who remember what she was like before, “Beloved Tropic” leans away from the melodramatic in favor of a quietude that its characters begin to find in one another.
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