This is a portrait of Beatriz Valencia, a Colombian-born domestic worker as profiled by her daughter Carolina. Merging fact and fiction the film looks to reveal the the life of an immigrant in America who works in blue collar jobs.
This is a film I like more than I love. I admire what its doing more than anything else. The problem is not the story, rather there is an artificility to the presentation that is distancing. I never full trusted what I was being told. The result was I was never fully engaed.
This isn't to say that the film is bad, it's not. It's more that I think the great things this film has to say isn't presented as well as it could have been.
And yet despite my reservations this film is worth a look. Its a film that looks at what its really like to be an immigrant and in today's world its something we need to hear.
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