By Christopher Vourlias

Noomi Rapace hints at her portrayal of Mother Teresa in the upcoming film "Mother," which sees the multi-talented Swedish talent take on the role of the Catholic saint when she was just an ordinary woman.

Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival this week, where she is part of a jury led by Paul Schrader, the star of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Prometheus” said she was drawn to the unconventional portrayal of Teresa because she wasn’t interested in a conventional biopic. “She wasn’t a saint,” Rapace said. “She’s a pretty complex character.”

“Mother,” the English-language debut of North Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska (“God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya”), follows a pivotal moment in the life of the revered saint over seven days, when she decides to leave the Loreto Entally Monastery in Calcutta and start her own order.