2006 World Film Festival of Montreal: Best First Fiction Feature
2006 Guadalajara Film Festival: Best Firs Film
Seven-year-old Alicia lives with her mother in an apartment. Alicia and her mother are the best of friends, and nothing could come between them—until Mom begins to bring her dates home. Through the suggestions and overactive imagination of a friend at school, Alicia begins to believe that her mother is possessed by a vampire—a vampire whom Alicia believe lives next door, in the guise of a sickly old man. Taking matters into her own hands, Alicia decides to enter the “vampire’s” apartment and place a cross on his chest to break her mother’s curse. Alicia will do anything to save her mother.Similar in theme to the classic Spirit of the Beehive, but with a keen eye for the rhythms and struggles of contemporary Mexican family life, More Than Anything in the World marks a confident debut for directors Andrés León Becker and Javier Solar. Illuminating the secret worlds of lonely children, the film never strays from its true subject: the uncommon
love between a single parent and her child.
dirs. Andrés Becker & Javier Solar, 1h30m, Mexico, In Spanish w/ English subtitles
