Odds are FREMONT is going to kick you in the ass. This simple film about an Afghani woman living in the Bay Area who works in fortune cookie factory doesn’t seem like much, until you get to the end and you find it has quietly gotten under your skin and into your heart.
The arc of the film follow our heroine, a former interpreter for the US military as she tries to make her life. She misses those left behind and she is trying to find a new path forward. It’s a film that feels kind of small and closed in because of where she has come from but that’s intentional since as the film goes we end up watching her open up, and while the final images are not big an Hollywood, they are so emotionally right that you maybe wiping away a tear or two.
This is a wonderful film that is largely off the radar.
Track it down because you will fall in love with it.
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