Latido

When one wants a baby but can’t conceive and another is pregnant and doesn’t want the baby, the solution to each woman’s problem seems simple. But the situation is not as clear-cut as it appears. In Mexico City-based director Katina Medina Mora’s third film to portray the complications of intimacy, two distinct realities converge over how it feels not to have control over your body. The newly separated Leonor (Marina de Tavira) comes from the monied class, while 16-year-old aspiring ballerina Emilia (Camila Calónico) does not. They begin a tense pas de deux waiting out Emilia’s pregnancy in a remote country home, isolated from the world and each other. Nur Rubio Sherwell’s dreamy subjective camerawork culminates in a breathtaking “Dance of the Young Swans” scene at the ballet — and common ground finally found. (Mill Valley Film Festival)