To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
A Common Crime (12)
Directed by Francisco Marquez
★★★
A SOCIOLOGY teacher is seemingly haunted by the ghost of her maid’s murdered son in this intelligent political thriller masquerading as a supernatural tale.
Writer-director Francisco Marquez’s slow-burning film provides a subtle critique of Argentina’s social classes and the widening distance between rich and poor, and the way the latter are treated as lazy, ignorant, criminal and disposable by Argentinian society and authorities.
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