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- 2021
- 1 h 13 m
- 2021
- 1 h 13 m
Summary After a 75-year-old immigrant mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life.
Directed By: Sian-Pierre Regis
- 2021
- 1 h 13 m
- 2021
- 1 h 13 m
Duty Free
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Summary After a 75-year-old immigrant mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life.
Directed By: Sian-Pierre Regis
Duty Free is warm, personal, beautifully structured and socially relevant as it creates a vivid portrait of its real-life heroine and the ageism she encounters. Smoothly edited into a swift 71 minutes, the film rarely goes beneath the surface of its issues, but that surface is smart and, taking its cues from Rebecca, refreshingly unsentimental.
Duty Free is for the most part free of gooey sentiment and clingy regrets. Regis (who eventually funded the on-and-off-again production of the film via Kickstarter) captures a remarkable portrait of a woman on the verge of … anything other than a nervous breakdown, mater triumphantes.
Duty Free spends little time exploring the ageism that’s at the heart of Danigelis’ employment difficulties. There’s a quick mention at the end of the doc that 25 million Americans don’t have enough money to pay for retirement, but no exploration of the how and why. It would have made for a more satisfying film had Regis gotten beyond the road-trip selfies.
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Awards
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination