Ema (2019)

A choreographer (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his dancer wife (Mariana Di Girolamo) have an adopted child (Cristian Felipe Suarez). When a tragedy occurs due to the boy's pyromania, they return him to the orphanage. Their marriage begins to crumble, not only due to their guilt for abandoning the boy but as the wife embarks on a new life of sexual freedom and liberation. Directed by Pablo Larrain (JACKIE), this is a very disturbing film. We don't get to see the couple before the adoption so we don't know if the tragedy made them wacko or if they were always this crazy. It boggles the mind that these two freaks would ever have been allowed to adopt a kid. The film ends on an equally distressing note as it suggests the craziness is not over. Just what is Larrain trying to say? What is the point of the movie? I couldn't begin to tell you. Still,  there's no denying it has a certain hypnotic pull to it and the dance excerpts are wonderful but Larrain never brings them to completion. With Paola Giannini and Santiago Cabrera.