Below is a quote from my new favorite director, Lucrecia Martel, about her film La Niña Santa, which she described as "an erotic film about a girl who thinks she's a saint." In reality, the film is far more complex than that, and celebrates negative space. At the end, I fell in love with the movie. The tension built and...well, you should just see it. It's pretty incredible and interesting, as is this quote:
Q: Why does La Niña Santa take place during a medical convention?
"There is something between medicine and holiness that interests me. The sick bodies and the healthy bodies. The lepers of Job, where God and the Devil hide. The saints sick from saintliness and their miraculous cures. The wounds of stigmata and the concept of the Passion. The doctor of the soul. The sick so sick that they look like monsters. In ancient times the appearance of a monster, somebody physically malformed, was a sign of the divine. The monster, the one that shows, that reveals divine intentions. Monsters have mutated with time and then came the degenerate ones, those without the Arian standards, the serial killers dressed in human skin, the poor in general who represent a menace with their monstrous needs. We are a monstrous species that betrays all that is foreseeable. Generations and generations of freaks that do not allow us to give anything for granted, that should oblige us to review the laws all the time, to think again about the meaning of happiness, about the possibility of finding a sense of happiness sufficiently diverse so as not to leave anyone out, to see each newborn as an infinite mystery of possibilities. La Niña Santa is a sort of surgical story that intends to draw a line between live tissue and moral prosthesis."
Read more about her in this Telegraph interview.
There's something about her that's kind of hot. I watched a documentary after the film about how it was made, and she's great to watch work.
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