This event was hold on the 30th of August 2021 | »Lina from Lima« scored 6,33 Genusspunkte | @ JFK-Plaza 1
Writer-director María Paz González’s first feature takes a well-worn miserabilist trope out of the arthouse drawer – a domestic worker struggles with homesickness and faces economic inequality – and upcycles it with warmth and wit to make something quite original. It’s even funny and upbeat in its final lap.
Leslie Felperin in The Guardian