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Aug 26, 2020 · Lingua Franca — which made a splash at the Venice Film Festival last year, the first film by a trans woman to be featured at the festival — is a gorgeous and delicate picture, an understated work that opens a window on an intimate world.
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Isabel Sandoval writes, directs, and stars in Lingua Franca, a drama about a trans immigrant from the Philippines trying to avoid deportation.
Dec 4, 2020 · Lingua Franca is a love story, focusing on the tentative relationship between Olivia and Alex ( Twin Peaks: The Return ’s Eamon Farren), the grandson of an elderly Russian Jewish woman named...
Aug 26, 2020 · This absence at the center of the frame is a canny thematic introduction to writer-director Isabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca,” a moody, mysterious romance that just dropped on Netflix this ...
Lingua Franca. This poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
Sep 11, 2020 · Brutal in its subtlety, Língua Franca is a harrowing portrait of not only Trump’s America but also Duterte’s Philippines. Respectively elected in 2016, the two men share harmful beliefs that spread like wildfire, conservative values that actively endanger the lives of many and steer society back years and years.
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