Michel Franco, the renowned Mexican director and producer, returns with another one of his characteristically intense and intimate film portraits. After the success of Chronic in Cannes (Palme D’Or for best screenplay), he takes on the theme of complicated family relationships between a mother and her two grown daughters. At first, Abril doesn’t seem very invested in the lives of 17-year-old Valeria and the slightly older Clara. The two sisters are just as emotionally distant from their mother, to the point where Valeria doesn’t even plan to tell her mother that she and her partner are having a baby. Everything changes when Clara, out of concern, decides to break the gridlock and share the news. All of a sudden Abril changes from a virtual stranger into a tender, caring, responsible mother. But there may be something wrong with this idyllic family portrait—questions arise about Abril’s true motives. April’s daughters is a film where nothing is as it seems. Michel Franco proves once again, as he did with Chronic and After Lucia, that he is a great film psychologist.