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Ever simce Ana (Mel Nunes) almost died in a house fire due to maternal neglect, she's a little bit traumatized. Ever since, Ana (as an adult played by Marjorie Estiano) has fallen out of touch with her mother (Chandelly Braz) but has turned her weakness into a strength and has become an accomplished professional fire fighter). And as such she and her team (Val Perré, Reynaldo Machado, Rafaél Canedo) are called to a care home during a torrential rain stormto evacuate its occupants as the place is essenially falling apart. As they arrive att he scene, they find the house in worse shape that they had even anticipated, as the rain's almost washing away the building while they're there - and yet, the house owner Drika (Ângela Rabello) and her caretaker Ulisses (Javier Drolas) are reluctant to leave or even let the occupants, many of them bed-ridden, be evacuated. Ana and company do the right thing though and at least try to prompt the occumpants to move - only to find out there's more wrong with the place than they first imagined, and a young girl, Lia (Maria Volpe) is held there against their will as the occumpants of the place appear to be nenbers of some dark cult. Now this is bad, but what's worse is that Ana's colleagues die one by one in accidents, and she eventually has to face the person she has come to fear the most, her own thought dead mother ...

A Mother's Embrace isn't a film that wastes too much time with explanations, doesn't overtalk things, and doesn't shot much inclination to actually solve its own mystery - and that's totally one of the film's strengths, as the more the audience is left in the dark (just like the lead character), the more palpable the horror of the situation becomes. And add to that a directorial effort that's heavy on atmosphere and shows a healthy predilection for the macabre, and a very able cast, and you've got yourself one awesome genre ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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