California Winter
Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom. She must now rescue her father’s home from foreclosure - a consequence of the loan she advised him to take.
-
- Cast:
- Erick Avari , Michael Ironside , A Martinez , Elizabeth Domínguez , Rutina Wesley , Walter Perez , Sean Patrick Murphy
Similar titles
Reviews
Pretty Good
Must See Movie...
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
I was glad to see my friend and former student Elizabeth Dominguez in California WINTER, which was screened Wednesday as part of the New Directors series at Anthology Film Archives. The film is a noticeably well-informed work about the foreclosure crisis at the heart of the 2008 crash. The writer and director Odin Ozdil explicates the causes of the disaster through the story of Clara, a real estate agent who is caught out in all innocence by the business and banking practices that brought it about.What hits home while watching the film is the extent to which we live in a "system" that plays our needs for housing, medical care and human dignity off each other for its own benefit. We are given all too few options for getting by, to say nothing of ahead, and declared the losers when the rules we are forced to play by reach their logical breaking point. READ MORE: http://osburnt.com/California-winter/