Carmen

[Opens Sept. 23 in theaters and available on various VOD platforms.] After a disliked Maltese priest (Henry Zammit Cordina) suddenly dies in a sun-kissed Mediterranean village in Malta in the 1980s and his repressed 50-year-old sister (Natascha McElhone), who has been his housekeeper and caretaker at the rectory since age 16 and is then abandoned by the Catholic church, in Valerie Buhagiar's captivating, award-winning, factually inspired, charming, well-acted, heartwarming, humor-dotted, 88-minute, 2021 film highlighted by terrific cinematography and landscapes, she embraces a new life, comes out of her shell, ends up listening to confessions, reminisces about her love for an Arab boy (Chakid Zidi) years earlier, finds herself attracted to a kindhearted pawnbroker (Steven Love), and befriends a young woman (Michela Farrugia) who is destined to her same fate unless she can convince her otherwise.
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