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The life of many an undocumented domestic worker is marked by fear. The threat of deportation may feel remote at times, but it hovers over them nonetheless — and structures their experience in ways both big and small. Exploiting such paranoia, Augustus Meleo Bernstein’s provocative if listless “At the Gates” creates a scenario where a housekeeper and her teenage son must trust her employers when Ice agents (or so they’re told) arrive in search of them both. Aiming to be a tense drama about trust, the film struggles to balance the personal and cultural stakes at the heart of its neat conceit.
When Ana arrives at her employer’s lavish home with her son Nico (Ezekiel Pacheco) in tow, she expects that day to be like many before. She’s worked for Marianne (Miranda Otto) and Peter Barris (Noah Wyle) for months now and takes pride in what she does.
When Ana arrives at her employer’s lavish home with her son Nico (Ezekiel Pacheco) in tow, she expects that day to be like many before. She’s worked for Marianne (Miranda Otto) and Peter Barris (Noah Wyle) for months now and takes pride in what she does.
- 10/31/2023
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
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When it comes to family drama, the sheer multitude of them makes it hard to distinguish one from the other. While there are certain layers making them distinctive, these are sometimes purely superficial, as the core idea of the family, its identity and the conflicts it has to overcome stay the same, making most of them somewhat redundant or at the very least, repetitive. What sets some of them apart from the rest is how the concept itself comes into question, after a tragedy, for example, setting the foundation for a fundamental alteration of the family itself. It seems this structure is what drives a short feature such as Jhanvi Motla's Mirage, even though its duration makes it tough to say for sure this is what the writer/director was aiming for.
Mirage is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
After the death of her husband, Nitya...
Mirage is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
After the death of her husband, Nitya...
- 10/25/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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