The Gilded Cage

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The Gilded Cage

2013,

1h 30m,

Comedy

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88%

8 Reviews

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72%

250+ Ratings

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88%

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8 Reviews

72%

Popcornmeter

250+ Ratings

Maria and Jose lived for 30 years on the ground floor of a building and became an integral part of the other residents' lives. When they plan to return to Portugal, their neighbors do everything they can to make them stay.

Ronnie Scheib

Variety

Apr 2, 2014

Alves ultimately unites his large cast in festive unity, with comic reversals redeeming the seemingly irredeemable in farcical fashion, and with large doses of ethnic warming.

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

Mar 11, 2014

2/4

The acting style wavers from the sensitive to the most sitcomish ... What's ham in Portuguese, canastro?

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Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

Mar 6, 2014

4/5

A Portuguese working-class couple who give all they've got to their employers must rearrange their priorities when they come into a large inheritance.

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Lee Zachariah

Concrete Playground

Feb 28, 2014

For all the odd cultural references, the film is charming and feelgood and pretty funny. If you've been burned by bad French comedies in recent times, this should certainly help mend those wounds.

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Fiona Williams

sbs.com.au

Dec 16, 2013

3/5

It's hard to fault the film's rousing shout out to hard-working migrant families, but the message gets muddled in the madness.

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Jim Schembri

3AW

Dec 13, 2013

3/5

First-time writer/director Ruben Alves based this delightful, family-values lark on his life experiences and elicits some playful performances from his ensemble cast.

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Han S

Apr 4, 2017

Some funny moments in this, but the film is filled with cliches about the Portuguese, who are all Bricklayers and their wives concierges ... The exploitation of immigrants by the French is well shown but we present this community as the "good" immigrants who let themselves be exploited ("that's what we like" says a character) and let their daughter get fucked by the son of the boss. Do not dream, this immigration is over!

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Synopsis

Maria and Jose lived for 30 years on the ground floor of a building and became an integral part of the other residents' lives. When they plan to return to Portugal, their neighbors do everything they can to make them stay.

Director: Ruben Alves
Producer: Hugo Gélin, Laetitia Galitzine, Danièle Delorme
Screenwriter: Ruben Alves, Jean-André Yerles, Hugo Gélin
Production Co: Pathé, Zazi Films, TF1 Films Production
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 3, 2016
Runtime: 1h 30m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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