Just back from seeing 'Mother and Child', a 2010 film written and directed by Rodrigo García, Gabriel García Márquez's eldest son (photo above).
I found the film moving, humane, truthful, realistic and compelling, and really recommend it.
The acting is uniformly superb throughout, and Rodrigo obviously has his father's gift of capturing the human spirit, its foibles and pathos, with honesty, compassion and a fundamentally benign eye. I also felt as if in the company of Almodóvar or Mike Leigh at various points.
The plot is intricate, with several lives overlapping, and love, loss, yearning, grief, nostalgia and tenderness felt by all. There is humour, too, and some lovely music at various points -- including a wonderful song in the final credits which I would love to track down.
Friends, family: please do see it, and tell me what you think!
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