The Awakening of the Ants (2019)

Original title

El despertar de las hormigas

Directed by

Antonella Sudasassi

Genre

fiction film

Country

Costa Rica

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in Costa Rica tries to balance her family duties with her personal dreams. Her husband pressures her to have another child, but she wants to focus on her own business.

slow-burncerebralmelancholicrestrainedintrospectivevisually understatedquietly tensesocially observant

What happens

The Awakening of the Ants (Spanish: El despertar de las hormigas) is a 2019 Costa Rican drama film directed by Antonella Sudasassi. It was selected as the Costa Rican entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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