2018 · comedy
Thi Mai
Directed by Patricia Ferreira1h 39m2018
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: her daughter was finally granted the Vietnamese girl she had asked for adoption and whose name is Thi Mai.
Our read: Thi Mai (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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