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CAROLA rating:
8
Drama This powerful drama film follows London doctor Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an intelligent middle-class black woman who was adopted and now decides to track down her biological mother. But her daunting discovery is that her natural mother Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is white and working class. Cynthia is doubtful of Hortense’s claim until she presents her birth certificate, then Cynthia's painful memories begin to reappear. Cynthia ... [+]
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  • es
June 6, 2006
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Multipremiada película, todo un clásico de los 90, que consigue convertir los acontecimientos cotidianos de una familia más o menos convencional en un recital interpretativo en el que todos los personajes dan lo mejor de sí mismos, tanto en su construcción, como en su interpretación, con una naturalidad desconcertante, a pesar de lo que se les avecina.
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