Maria, a young woman confined by loneliness and the weight of a conflicting past, lives suffocating days in a house that holds memories and silences. Between erased traditions and choices, she challenges the impositions of purity, searching, between guilt and resistance, for a way to escape the imposed pain.
The way Jeannette has to deal with child neglect makes her insecure about her parents and how she was brought up and raised in the United States. This continues into adulthood, where Jeannette becomes a successful journalist and is frequently asked about her parents by others.
The film is a simple love story reminiscent of stories like The Notebook released in 2004. Sylvie and Robert are rarely actually together in the film, however; time and circumstance keep them away from each other, and the audience waits with bated breath to see them find one another over and over.
The 'Shaft' remake fails to capture blaxpoitation's rebellious spirit.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
A short hybrid film featuring everyone's favorite Disney characters.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
