AMADOR

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Fri, Jan 27th at 8:15pm
Sat, Jan 28th at 5:15pm
Sun, Jan 29th at 3:00pm
Mon, Jan 30th at 8:15pm
Tue, Jan 31st at 6:00pm
Wed, Feb 1st at 8:15pm
Thu, Feb 2nd at 6:00pm

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First Chicago run!

  1. AMADOR
  1. 2010, Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain, 112 min.
  2. With Magaly Solier, Fanny de Castro

“Well crafted and thoughtful...blending black comedy, lyricism and social critique.”
—Jonathan Holland, Variety

Black humor infuses this film in which need meets greed across class differences for a story that radiates pathos and low-key charm. Marcela (Solier), a Bolivian immigrant living hand-to-mouth with her flower-seller boyfriend in Madrid, takes a job as caregiver for Amador, an elderly man. She barely has time to establish a rapport before her crusty charge dies. Despite the corpse in the bedroom, a nosy landlord, and an insistent hooker with a weekly appointment, Marcela strives to maintain the illusion that the man alive and well as she waits in trepidation for the return of his vacationing family. In Spanish with English subtitles. 35mm widescreen. (BS)