Maternal

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Maternal

2019

1h 31m

Drama

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Lu and Fati are teen mothers living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows.

Keith Uhlich

The Hollywood Reporter

Delpero shows a sure hand with her performers, especially Malale, a nonprofessional quite evidently drawing on her own experiences in a real-life hogar...

Aug 10, 2019

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Guy Lodge

Variety

A moving, lively study of conflicting duties and desires in a Buenos Aires hogar - a convent-based refuge for young single mothers - that marks an assured shift into narrative filmmaking for Italian docmaker Maura Delpero.

Aug 10, 2019

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Fausto Ponce

Proceso

Hogar is a good genre movie, and it pays for the time we were waiting for the conclusion. [Full Review in Spanish]

Apr 28, 2020

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Matt Cipolla

The Spool

[Delpero's] camera is still for what very well might be the entire film, yet she and editors Ilaria Fraioli and Luca Mattei establish a decent sense of place.

Jan 17, 2020

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Juan Pablo Russo

EscribiendoCine

The film builds a proper amount of suspense to really hammer through some of the questions that the religion itself raises. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 8/10

Dec 18, 2019

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Gaspar Zimerman

Clarín

The film presents a moral dilemma with sensitivity and economy of resources. [Full review in Spanish]

Dec 13, 2019

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Synopsis

Lu and Fati are teen mothers living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows.

Director: Maura Delpero
Screenwriter: Maura Delpero
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1h 31m