English title: A Week Alone.
A group of children and adolescents during school break are without their parents at home. María, 14, is sort of "the person in charge", plus the maid. They all live in a rich condo. When the maid's brother is allowed to stay with them during that period, some discomfort is generated.
A very well-made film which has a sociological agenda which may work well for some and less so for others. Apparently the film's theme is put forward in the words of the song that little Sofía sings: "Invisible: I am invisible to you". They establish an inevitable reference to the social barrier which makes the lower classes invisible to the higher ones, and, why not, to other barriers as well. I myself tried not to question too much the plausibility of the characters' actions (particularly in the last act) and observe the stream of interactions with which the filmmaker built her fictional world. It is not without interest to compare certain aspects of this film's social fiction with certain aspects of the social fiction in Spanglish, and see that fiction admits wildly varying world configurations. As for so-called reality, each viewer will have her own experiences and ideological constraints.
Rating: 57
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