2024 · history · drama
Cabrini
Directed by Alejandro Monteverde2h 22m2024
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Our read: Cabrini (2024) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded history · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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