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Chile, United States · 2010
1h 39m
Director Pedro Peirano
Starring Bélgica Castro, Claudia Celedón, Catalina Saavedra, Alejandro Sieveking
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Isidora and Enrique, both in their 80s, live a quiet and comfortable life. But Rosario, her scheming daughter looking for any reason to institutionalize her aging mother, happens to visit at the same time the elevator breaks. With nowhere to go, Isidora must hide her onset senility from those closest to her.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
You understand the different ways the members of this extended family are trapped, in physical space and in psychological patterns they don’t fully understand. But you also realize that, like house cats that venture to the door to sniff at the air outside, they don’t necessarily want to be free.
Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
Walks a fine line between empathetic treatment of its characters and voyeuristic freakshow gazing.
he wild-eyed Celedón and stealthily empathetic Saavedra introduce a farcical element to this otherwise mournful milieu, but the tonal clashes yield something genuinely cathartic, if also ultimately irresolvable.
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