Synopsis
The Gilded Cage (La Cage Dorée, 2013) is a French comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ruben Alves and led by Rita Blanco and Joaquim de Almeida. Maria and José Ribeiro have spent nearly thirty years as the invisible backbone of a Haussmann apartment building in Paris — she runs the front lodge, he fixes whatever breaks, and every tenant on every floor has grown completely dependent on both of them.
When the Ribeiros announce they are moving back to Portugal, the building falls apart. The lawyer upstairs, the stylish couple next door, the whole stairwell — each one starts scheming to keep them from leaving. It does not occur to anyone to ask whether Maria and José actually want to go.
Ruben Alves (who also appears in the film) made a warm, low-key farce about immigrant labour and the odd invisibility of people who become essential. It lands somewhere between gentle social comedy and a story about two people finally working out what they owe themselves. Stream The Gilded Cage (2013) on iFILM.
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