Last night’s chat with Mother and Child director-writer Rodrigo Garcia went smoothly enough, but it was partly a technical disaster on my end. I forgot to take a photo of him for some reason, and the video footage I shot was accidentally erased during a file transfer I attempted an hour after we parted. But at least I have the mp3. I’d summarize what we discussed but my first film of the day — Love and Other Impossible Pursuits — starts in 17 minutes.


Mother and Child director-writer Rodrigo Garcia in a N.Y. Times photo taken four years ago.