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Apr 4, 2021 · Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent” is a film noir take on life in a Chilean nursing home. By Lucia Arce Ahrensdorf, a Bolivian American freelance writer based in Los Angeles. A photo from the ...
Oct 4, 2024 · As a documentary that breaks all bounds to highlight the importance of human connection and purpose even in the late stages of life, Netflix’s ‘The Mole Agent’ is truly unlike any other. It actually follows 83-year-old Sergio Chamy as he is hand-picked from a line of potential candidates to infiltrate a local Chilean nursing home on ...
Sep 1, 2020 · The Mole Agent. A Chilean man and recent widower named Sergio answers a classified ad for an unusual job at a private investigation service. It’s unusual in part because it’s looking for men between the ages of 80 and 90, who are good with technology, and independent.
"Life is cruel, after all." Resident Petita In writer-director Maile Alberdi's sweet Spanish documentary, The Mole Agent, about a nursing home, life is not cruel. While slower minds and bodies come with the territory, the filmmakers catch almost everyone happy enough and involved in their little scenarios, created by their minds or the adults ...
Jan 7, 2021 · Even if their bodies and minds are failing, they have the right to family life and not to be institutionalised and forgotten. Sergio’s epiphany, that it is the cruelty of modern life, a life in which the working week takes precedence over humanity, that leaves the viewer crushed.
Feb 1, 2021 · Sergio is offered the job as a ‘mole agent’ after some serious training on how to secretly film the home routines and send coded messages to his private detective employer. Sergio relishes the role of a retired ‘James Bond’ with gusto and empathy.
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Apr 14, 2021 · The Mole Agent highlights the wounds of those who are forced to live in loneliness, confined to a building with no one of their own. They do form a community inside, but how can one live happily knowing they have a family outside who does not want to keep them together?