A housekeeper from El Salvador brings her teenage son to help her clean an affluent family’s Los Angeles home. But after being told by her employers that immigration officers are searching for her, she accepts the invitation to shelter in their house until the crisis blows over. As days go by under the same roof, each family begins to question the other’s true intentions.
Augustus Meleo Bernstein
Director
Miranda Otto
Marianne Barris
Noah Wyle
Peter Barris
Sadie Stanley
Lauren Barris
Vanessa Benavente
Ana Ibarra
Peter Murnik
Officer Daniels
Kelly Sry
Officer Chen
Ezekiel Pacheco
Nico Ibarra
Jack Eyman
Oliver Barris
Nikita Chaudhry
Alarm System (voice)
Christopher Alvarenga
Officer Derek
Max Davis
Officer Tommy
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Elio could be seen as fantastic piece of representation, showing lonely children who feel ostracized that they are not alone. That is, unless you look behind the curtain.
This Comedy-Drama set in Nazi Germany, shows a young boy, Jojo who wants to be Hitler's personal guard and even conjures up Hitler to be his imaginary friend. His nationalism and prejudices of Jews change when he discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his attic.
An attempt to capture nostalgia that unfortunately just doesn’t work
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
Although not canonically aromantic or asexual. the stories and personalities of these Disney princesses resonate with members of the aroace community.