Our Need for Consolation (2012)

With the theme of unemployment, it presents a family fantasy anecdote rather the a comment on social problems.

That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.

Madres takes place in the 70’s following a Hispanic married couple who move to a migrant farming community. Diana, who is pregnant, starts to become suspicious of their new environment after she and the women around her develop strange symptoms. Could it be a curse, a sickness, or something else?

We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.

Richard speaks with Dia Frampton about some of her experiences with acting and music.

'Thirteen Lives' gives a dramatic adaptation of a humanitarian triumph that captured the global imagination.