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Spain · 2017
1h 31m
Director Gustavo Salmerón
Starring Julita Salmerón, Gustavo Salmerón
Genre Documentary
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Julita expressed her three greatest wishes shortly after getting married: lots of children, a monkey, and a castle she can call her own. When financial circumstances force the family to sell their castle, her adult children are left sifting through a lifetime of peculiarities in search of a few lost bones…
This laidback documentary portrait – directed by her son, Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón – takes on a casual, boisterously wistful air, as the eccentric octogenarian reflects on her many years, while the extended clan buzzes excitedly around.
Salmerón’s film, crammed as full of tchotchkes and knick-knacks and bibelots as one of his mother’s closets, refutes that, presenting an endearingly haphazard portrait of an extraordinary woman and the family she made — one that has discovered its own, completely unique way to be happy.
The Hollywood Reporter by Jonathan Holland
What viewers take away from Kids is the sense that even after 80 years of hard living, it’s still possible to live a meaningful, happy and influential existence — an authentically feel-good message for these feel-bad times.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
What Salmerón is after, however, is a simple portrait of hilarious exuberance, hard-won togetherness and strange wisdom. That search yields results.
Everything he touches turns into excitement.
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