Lo Invisible

[Plays 5/9 at 2 p.m. and 5/15 at 7:50 p.m. as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When a wealthy, distraught, self-harming, 45-year-old housewife (Anahí Hoeneisen), who suffers from postpartum depression and is emotionally detached from herself and her newborn son, returns to her beautiful, spacious, glass-walled home in the mountains of Ecuador following a three-month stay in a psychiatric clinic for attempting to harm her baby in Javier Andrade's captivating, poignant, realistic, well-acted, 85-minute, 2021 film, everyone around her, including her clueless husband (Juan Lorenzo Barragán), teenage son (Pablo Terán), the live-in nanny (Matilde Lagos), and chauffeurs and security guards (Gerson Guerra and Marco Villacís), ignores her increasingly erratic behavior and inability to connect with her child as she erects inner and outer invisible walls and pretending that her malaise and struggles with motherhood are under control.
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