SO MUCH TENDERNESS
A film by Lina Rodriguez
(Canada, 2022, 118 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald), an environmental lawyer, illegally crosses the northern U.S. border to restart and settle in Canada as a refugee. Six years later, she leads a seemingly normal life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter Lucía (Natalia Aranguren), until her estranged cousin Edgar (Francisco Zaldua), who was a suspect in her husband’s murder, resurfaces, threatening everything she’s built. The latest from Canadian multi-hyphenate artist Lina Rodriguez is a sharply calibrated story of dislocation and exile, centered on an émigré whose hard-fought sense of belonging and empowerment is made tenuous thanks to forces from both the political past and cultural present. Rodriquez’s adeptness in both narrative and documentary storytelling comes through in this unforgettable drama, rich in both uncanny details of immigrant lives and the director’s own distinctive sense of humor and timing.
Preceded by SELF-PORTRAIT No. 1
(Lina Rodriguez. 2018, 3 min.)
A portrait of the artist through song and domestic interiority.
Sunday, October 29, 4:30 pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, New York City
For tickets and more information visit:
https://movingimage.us/event/so-much-tenderness/
Watch the trailer:
