The Gilded Cage

For nearly thirty years, Maria (Rita Blanco) and José Ribeiro (Joaquim de Almeida) have lived in the small ground-floor lodge of a Haussmann building in one of the nicer parts of Paris, looking after the people who live above them. Ruben Alves, making his first feature, drew on his own parents' lives for the story. It comes down to what a family owes the country it works for and the country it left.