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Power, Religion, and the Place of Women Dominate Antonio Chavarrías’ High-Profile Malaga Competition Contender ‘Holy Mother’
Antonio Chavarrías returns with 'Holy Mother,’ a 9th century Spain saga about Abbess Emma's quest to revitalize frontier lands.
His latest venture, sold by Film Constellation, transports us to the 9th century where Emma, a newly appointed abbess, is tasked with the formidable challenge of repopulating and revitalizing frontier lands on the edge of Muslim territorie,s at the bequest of her powerful family. At the story’s center is Daniela Brown’s (“Días Mejores,”) portrayal of Emma, a young abbess whose divine conviction is matched only by her unyielding resolve. Chavarrías varied career spans a wide range of films, from the Spanish giallo “Una ombra en el jardín” (1989), through the immigrant-junkie drama “Susanna” (1996), the familial conflict in “Volverás” (2002), the procedural “Las vidas de Celia” (2005), to the Trotsky assassination thriller “The Chosen” (2016).
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