Sofie begins her new career as a home health aide. We watch as she helps her client, interacts with her coworkers and tries to process her job so it doesn't affect her personal life.
This is a solid slice of life. It's an eye opening look at how aides interact with their clients and her job. It's a film that doesn't look away from what happens, and most importantly it doesn't create false drama. This is life as it happens, with the grind taking it's toll.
That the film works as well as it does i due tothe cast headed jy Jette Sondergaard. She, and the rest of the cast play it very real and very matter of fact. As a result we believe that everything is actually happening.
If there is a problem it's in that in the final half hour the film begins to swing things around so that the film can hed towards a conclusion. Threads begin to start to be tied up and there is a shift in construction and we suddenly are aware that the film is has music. I don't think the film had it before the final half hour and it's sudden emergence is a bit jarring since it seems to be there to guide us in our feelings, something the film had not really done before. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with it, its more that I was really enjoying just being allowed to react however I did with out musical nudges.
Quibbles aside, I really liked HOME SWEET HOME and it's worth seeing when it plays by you.
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