Noomi Rapace Is Mother Teresa in Teona Strugar Mitevska's 'Mother'

Teona Strugar Mitevska takes on Mother Teresa in Venice premiere “Mother.” She aims to “demystify the perfect saint,” with the help of Noomi Rapace , cast in the title role.

“It was essential to show her humanity and not her greatness. Jealousy, desire, anger. How can you be good if you don’t know the bad?” asks the Macedonian director. “We’re open to looking beyond male myths. Alexander Sokurov made his ‘Tetralogy of Power’ about Hitler and Lenin and everyone accepted it. But when it comes to women … even I am a prisoner of what I’m supposed to represent.”

The director says that Rapace looked for the vulnerability of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. “Noomi’s strong and audacious, and it’s evident. But nobody is just strong and ferocious, and nobody is just a saint. We had to find her