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Noomi Rapace Teases ‘Punk Rock’ Portrayal of Mother Teresa in Upcoming Film ‘Mother’: ‘She Was No Saint’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Rapace will star in 'Mother,' from Teona Strugar Mitevska, which follows seven days in the life of the saint when she was still an ordinary woman.
Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival this week, where she’s part of a competition jury headed by Paul Schrader, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Prometheus” star said she was drawn to the offbeat portrait of Teresa because she wasn’t interested in doing a conventional biopic. “Mother,” which marks the English-language debut of North Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska(“God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya”), will follow seven days during a pivotal moment in the life of the revered saint, when she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order. Mitevska, who was in Sarajevo this week to pitch the dark comedy-horror series “ Little Yugoslavia ” alongside Slovenian co-creator Sonja Prosenc, left the Balkan fest for Calcutta, where the director said she’s finalizing locations for “Mother.” Production is set to begin on Sept. 23 in Belgium, where interiors will be filmed, before moving to India.
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