Bloody Daughter

Documentary films are, first and foremost, about access – and Stéphanie Argerich, as Martha’s daughter, has unprecedented access to one of the world’s most famed pianists, a prodigy who made her debut at age 8 and now, even at 72, is still performing to an adoring public. What is it to be harnessed to such a life-long talent? What are the rigours that such talent demands of the individual and all who surround her? Stéphanie is her mother’s travel companion on a recent journey through Europe and Asia and she captures rarely publicised moments of Argerich off-stage. The bloody daughter’s directorial début is a generous film, and while it only mentions in passing momentous things, things that it will never explain, it is nonetheless an extraordinary entrée into Agerich’s life and those of her children.