2021 Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary!
When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s wellbeing in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man, to become a new resident—and a mole inside the home. While no 007, Sergio is a keen student, looking for ways to distract himself after recently losing his wife. What could be a better distraction than some undercover spy action? But as Sergio starts to grow close to several of the residents, he realizes that the menacing truth beneath the surface is not what anyone had suspected. Straddling the line between observational documentary and charming spy drama, Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent is poignant meditation on compassion and loneliness that is particularly compelling amid this moment of social isolation.
In Spanish with English subtitles
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