2023 · comedy · action · political
National Family
Directed by Marcelo Tobar1h 43m2023
Don Poli, the patriarch of a family embedded in politics, faces the change of party in his state - after a hundred years in power - losing all his privileges. Humiliated and angry, he threatens to disinherit his family and leave to rebuild his life. This forces his children (Kippy, Ramses and Belén) to take extreme measures to ensure their future, causing everything that could go wrong to turn out worse.
Our read: National Family (2023) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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