Filmmaker Michel Franco—elliptical investigator of Mexico’s bourgeois and its discontents—examines the outer limits of the maternal imperative in his trenchant new drama LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (April’s Daughter), screening twice at AFI FEST 2017.
Emma Suarez—recently seen in Almodovar’s Julietta—stars as Abril, and her adult daughters are played by Ana Valeria Becerril and Joanna Larequi. The women are aided and abetted by Enrique Arrizon, who plays a useful idiot straight out of Pasolini’s school of beautiful-but-dim extras.
LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL/APRIL’S DAUGHTER
Sunday, November 12, at 4 pm, and Wednesday, November 15, at 3:45 pm.
CHINESE SIX-PLEX, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Ana Valeria Becerril and Emma Suarez in Las hijas de Abril (2017).
