Lina from Lima review – funny, sultry film about a plucky economic migrant

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Upending arthouse tropes with musical numbers and lashings of sex, this witty debut about a Peruvian domestic worker refuses to see its heroine as a victim

Hard to imagine poverty cramping her style … Magaly Solier in Lina from Lima.riter-director María Paz González’s first feature takes a well-worn miserabilist trope out of the arthouse drawer – a domestic worker struggles with homesickness and faces economic inequality – and upcycles it with warmth and wit to make something quite original. It’s even funny and upbeat in its final lap.

 

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