Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá

A slow, earnest historical drama that feels more like a respectful lecture than an engaging story, with moments of war but mostly plodding piety.

Directed by

Jorge N. Mobaied

Genres

Drama

Starring

Olga Zubarry, Luis Medina Castro, Iván Grondona

Overview

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.

How it feels

Earnest, melancholic and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Faith, identity, family, colonialism

Content

Mild violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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