A24 has garnered an unbelievable quantity of status for a studio that is solely been round since 2012. What’s so nice about it? Effectively, A24 has made most of the greatest movies which have come out prior to now ten years, together with greatest image winner “Every little thing, In every single place, All at As soon as.” It has one other slate of thrilling movies prepared for 2024, and it kicked off the 12 months with the sensible “Problemista,” a brand new movie from the thoughts of up-and-coming comic Julio Torres. The movie, which additionally stars Tilda Swinton, follows a younger man named Alejandro (Torres). Alejandro grew up in El Salvador and moved to america, the place he hoped to understand his dream of changing into a toy designer.
“Problemista” follows Alejandro as he offers with the entire struggles that include immigration. He does not manage to pay for to make a great begin at something and loses his job sponsorship nearly as shortly as he obtains it. An eccentric girl named Elizabeth (Swinton) decides to make use of Alejandro, asking for his assist in placing collectively a gallery to have fun her artist husband. Due to a whimsical, surrealist tone, a contented ending, and a very nuanced efficiency from Swinton (who humanizes the “Karen” archetype with out offering false hope that such a self-obsessed particular person can have an actual change of coronary heart), “Problemista” manages to seize the desperation of poverty and unstable documentation standing with out leaving its viewers bereft of hope.