“Mother,” Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s anticipated feature follow-up to the 2017 Oscar-nominated short of the same name, premieres in Venice Film Festival’s Horizons sidebar on Friday. Whil…
While the feature shares the short’s title and main character, played with great intensity by Marta Nieto once again, the narrative will catch Sorogoyen and regular co-writer Isabel Peña’s fans a bit off guard.
Before I even started shooting the short, I had the idea it could be a feature. I’ve also always imagined it as something very different than a thriller. Isabel and I could have done something dark, a psychological thriller, but for me the film was always about a mother, years after she’s lost her son, and her encounter with a child that reminds her of the boy. After our last few features, we were both a bit tired of these big thriller films.
Totally! Isabel and I are an inseparable team. She provides our work with something I don’t have, and I like to think she’s delighted with me as a director when she sees our words come to life on the screen. We love the process of working together and a lot of fun. We stay in very close contact when we are developing a story.
When I wrote the short, one of the few things I’ve ever written without Isabel, I just imagined any place outside of Spain where a father and son might go together, and for that I really liked the Landes region of France. It’s close, but foreign enough that the language barrier would make it much harder to find the boy. I studied French and did an Erasmus program in France and still have a lot of love for the country.
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