When Mother comes Home for Christmas, Nilita Vachani, 1995 fascinating story of a sri lankan woman hired out to a french couple in athens to take care of their children film revolves around her trip back to sri lanka to check on her own children she has not seen in several years but whom she supports definitely worth seeking out documentary with the "narrative pull of fiction" -- " made by a sometime associate of Mira Nair, is the product of extraordinary persistence, empathy and intelligence; never mind that it opens up the emotional lives of an entire family and reveals, in heartbreakingly direct fashion, the true meaning of the phrase "global economy." --Nation, 5/13/96, Vol. 262 Issue 19, p35, 2p Klawans, Stuart Carol Donelan wrote: > A colleague of mine is looking for films with plots featuring cultural > transition(s), i.e. someone going to a foreign country, or someone coming > home, and in both cases having to make some cultural adjustments and/or > resisting changes. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks for your input. > > Carol Donelan > Media Studies Program > Carleton College > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite