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  • 2023
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2023
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 58 m
Robe of Gems

Summary Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is now bare and neglected. Isabel and her husband are growing apart, and their children are incre...

Directed By: Natalia López

Written By: Natalia López

  • 2023
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2023
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 58 m

Robe of Gems

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is now bare and neglected. Isabel and her husband are growing apart, and their children are incre...

Directed By: Natalia López

Written By: Natalia López

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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88
Sep 11, 2023
A Bolañesque waking nightmare, the film insists that we come to terms with it rather than straightforwardly enjoy it.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 16, 2022
A visually stunning, thoughtful, and profoundly unsettling study of the impact of male violence on the lives of three women played out in the pitiless sunlight of rural southern Mexico, Natalia López Gallardo’s feature debut Robe Of Gems is creepy in all the right ways.
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80
Feb 16, 2022
It is a disturbing and unsettling piece of work, a psycho-pathological moodboard of a film, in which guilt, horror and shame poison the atmosphere.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 16, 2022
Robe of Gems isn’t an easy film. Its harrowing content is devoid of optimism and its pacing ensures we wallow in the resulting suffering even if very little of it is actually shown on-screen.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 16, 2022
The problem, then, is that too much of this is dispiriting without also being enlightening — the view Gallardo takes is almost that of a bird’s eye, showing much from an emotional remove but revealing little beyond surface-level horrors and characters so numb to it all that we’re left with little choice but to feel the same way.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 16, 2022
[López Gallardo] tends to eschew straightforward storytelling for something so elusive that her film nearly escapes us for its first half, until the pieces gradually fit together and we manage to make some sense of the plot, if not entirely what the director is going for.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW

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Production Company CTT Exp & Rentals, Cactus Film & Video, Cárcava Cine, Detalle Films, Estudios Splendor Omnia, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (FOPROCINE), Lobo en medio de lobos, Pretty Ideas, Rei Cine
Release Date Sep 15, 2023
Duration 1 h 58 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Morelia International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 2 Nominations

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