Enrique Rivero : 2012
Chayo returns to Xochimilco, her hometown, to care for her elderly mother who is on the verge of death. Of native Mexican descent, Chayo is a woman who radiates inner calm but also seems to be hiding some secret sadness. We see her being punted down one of Xochimilco's waterways to the country shack where her ageing and ailing mother lives with two young girls and their father. Chayo is the girls' mother, and the man her husband. But Chayo is a woman of exceptional courage and subtle sensibility who dares to refuse to stay bound in a life that was never hers. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, she has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom. Focusing on the existential crisis of a strong and grounded woman who gives little outward sign of her overwhelming inner turmoil, Enrique Rivero's second feature premiered in competition at Rome Film Festival 2012.
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