Mammut (2009)

Mammut: Directed by Lukas Moodysson. With Gael García Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito, Sophie Nyweide. While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid’s family struggles to deal with her absence.

“You expected him to compromise. You demanded of him not to. This goes in between.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMammoth tells the story of the wealthy New York couple who keeps a nanny from the Phillipines for their daughter. The nannyu0026#39;s sons are on the other side of the world. There are certainly no equal living conditions here and the film attacks globalization.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut it does so in a rather quiet way. Moodysson has said that heu0026#39;s too old to judge people anymore. And thatu0026#39;s a pity, because it makes this film rather toothless. You canu0026#39;t have your criticism taken seriously if everybody more or less are victims.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting is all right here, but still this is a very Americanized movie. Moodysson has had resources, OK, but he has lacked the artistic possibilities, working within this system.”