Why you can trust GamesRadar+
Elusive, oblique, yet always compelling, writer/director Lucrecia Martel's second feature takes place during a medical convention at an Argentine hotel, which is also the home of a glamorous divorcee, Helena (Mercedes Morán), and her schoolgirl daughter, Amalia (Maria Alché). When one of the middle-aged doctors (Carlos Belloso) deliberately rubs against the teenager in a crowded street, Amalia considers it her Catholic duty to save the man from his sins, even though he's caught her mother's eye.
La Nina Santa is suffused with a febrile atmosphere of yearning and emotional secretiveness. Avoiding conventional establishing shots, Martel drops in on her unusually framed characters, picking out telling moments and snatches of conversation, whilst letting the viewer make their own connections between the pieces in the narrative puzzle. The result is a sensual film that evocatively conveys the confusions of adolescent desire.
The Total Film team are made up of the finest minds in all of film journalism. They are: Editor Jane Crowther, Deputy Editor Matt Maytum, Reviews Ed Matthew Leyland, News Editor Jordan Farley, and Online Editor Emily Murray. Expect exclusive news, reviews, features, and more from the team behind the smarter movie magazine.
![Robert Pattinson as Mickey in Mickey 17](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vMYaKUihvWxfMHweND4bh8-840-80.jpg)
Mickey 17 Review: "Bong Joon-ho's best English movie to date and arguably Robert Pattinson's best movie ever"
![A close-up of Coen during the trailer for The Blood of Dawnwalker.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/89Xf2zb2qay6SHiao2WMW4-840-80.jpg)
The Witcher 3 director's new vampire RPG gives you the freedom "to kill off a lot of NPCs, and a lot of them can be really important NPCs"
![Elden Ring Nightreign](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qAh7KtUB9GLFpRinhpGskS-840-80.jpg)
The random events in Elden Ring Nightreign are the funniest thing FromSoftware's ever cooked up, from a rain of ants to Morgott jump scares