Finding Agnes (2020)
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”An entrepreneur travels to Morocco to find his estranged mother's adopted daughter.”
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Don't be fooled: despite the label of a sensitive and delicate movie, 'Finding Agnes' is one of the poorest aesthetically and narratively productions from Netflix in 2020. After all, director Marla Ancheta takes advantage of countless clichés, easy solutions and one-dimensional characters to tell the story of a son searching for his mother's memories, who abandoned him when he was very young. However, despite being a really fragile production in terms of technique, there is heart in what is told. And this reflects in an urgent sentimentality that arises there from the last thirty minutes and ends up making the movie, as a whole, gain traction. It's not good. But it can still be a good feature film to get emotional, shed some tears and reflect on oneself.
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On an emotional journey in Morocco, an entrepreneur pieces together the turbulent life of his estranged mother and meets her adopted daughter.
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