Mexican writer-director Michelle Garza Cervera's remarkable debut, 'Huesera: The Bone Woman,' is as incisive as it is terrifying.
The more the gestation progresses, the more her mind debilitates. Only anxiously cracking her knuckles offers her relief amid microaggressions from the women in her family, save for her aunt Chabela , happily single and child-free but judged for it.
Garza Cervera cleverly orchestrates each scene to confront her tormented protagonist with a situation that, in the eyes of those around her, puts her readiness to be a mother in question. Solián’s harrowingly physical performance of heart-wrenching screams and painful facial expressions do more to frighten the viewer than the well-executed otherworldly incidents, because the horror is in her mounting desperation.
Early on Raúl refuses to have sex with her, arguing concern for their growing offspring, and later he and his mother decide whether Valeria should start on antidepressants. To them, her personhood and agency become secondary to her childbearing and child-rearing roles. Even the seemingly throwaway dialogue in a dinner scene reinforces how society perceives women struggling to balance the unfair demands of family and career.
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