Robe of Gems

Name: Robe of Gems
Genre: Drama
Released: September 15, 2023
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Aida Roa, Antonia Olivares, Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Mónica Poggio, Nailea Norvind

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| Release Date: September 15, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Aida Roa, Antonia Olivares, Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Mónica Poggio, Nailea Norvind

Summary: Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is now bare and neglected. Isabel and her husband are growing apart, and their children areIsabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is now bare and neglected. Isabel and her husband are growing apart, and their children are increasingly worried about them. Maria’s sister’s disappearance has left her family in distress and forced her to engage in criminal activities with Adan, the son of a local policeman. Isabel decides to go on a dangerous quest, neglecting her own children, as well as her housekeeper’s warning that she does not understand how things work in Mexico’s poorer regions. [Berlin]… Expand

Director: Natalia López

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 118 min

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William Repass

Sep 11, 2023

A Bolañesque waking nightmare, the film insists that we come to terms with it rather than straightforwardly enjoy it. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Feb 16, 2022

It is a disturbing and unsettling piece of work, a psycho-pathological moodboard of a film, in which guilt, horror and shame poison the atmosphere. Read full review

Jonathan Holland

Feb 16, 2022

A visually stunning, thoughtful, and profoundly unsettling study of the impact of male violence on the lives of three women played out in the pitiless sunlight of rural southern Mexico, Natalia López Gallardo’s feature debut Robe Of Gems is creepy in all the right ways. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Feb 16, 2022

Robe of Gems isn’t an easy film. Its harrowing content is devoid of optimism and its pacing ensures we wallow in the resulting suffering even if very little of it is actually shown on-screen. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Feb 16, 2022

[López Gallardo] tends to eschew straightforward storytelling for something so elusive that her film nearly escapes us for its first half, until the pieces gradually fit together and we manage to make some sense of the plot, if not entirely what the director is going for. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Feb 16, 2022

The problem, then, is that too much of this is dispiriting without also being enlightening — the view Gallardo takes is almost that of a bird’s eye, showing much from an emotional remove but revealing little beyond surface-level horrors and characters so numb to it all that we’re left with little choice but to feel the same way. Read full review

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