2025 · drama · comedy
The Thieving Magpie
Directed by Robert Guédiguian2025
Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth. She can't quite accept her precarious situation and steals a few euros here and there from all those lovely people she looks after with such devotion, and who adore her for it… But after an accusation of abuse of a vulnerable person, Maria winds up in police custody.
Our read: The Thieving Magpie (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
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