Cat in the Wall

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Cat in the Wall

2019

1h 31m

Drama

Documentary

Comedy

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Life on a council estate in Brexit London -- gentrification plans bring astronomic bill for homeowners and aggravate the community. In the eye of the storm Irina, a Bulgarian single mother, tries to breakthrough as an architect and refuses to live on benefits like most of her neighbors. She galvanizes the homeowners to appeal against bill with the Council but the English assure her that any attempt to fight the system is doomed. Irina's family and people living on benefits clash over the ownership of a cat. А different side of British society is revealed to her and she realizes she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind. She takes a drastic decision to change her life.

Guy Lodge

Variety

May 3, 2020

Shot through with intimate love-hate knowledge of its South London turf, this is a funny, frustrated yell from a demographic tired of being talked over.

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

Aug 21, 2019

Although a little rough around the edges at times, the picture is never less than persuasive and honest. Sometimes brutally so.

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Andreea Patru

Vague Visages

Dec 6, 2023

Refusing to look down on their characters, Kazakova and Mileva effectively portray disillusion by relying on familiarity and recognition to bring the marginalised closer.

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Eulàlia Iglesias

Fotogramas

Oct 18, 2021

4/5

Transmits a reality as identifiable as it is complex. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Carlos Marañón

Cinemanía (Spain)

Aug 2, 2021

3/5

The film, a less tragic debtor to the Loach, turns the topic of immigrants upside down. [Full review in Spanish]

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Àngel Quintana

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

Dec 14, 2020

The character Irina explains with great lucidity... the controversies regarding social intolerance in rich countries. [Full review in Spanish]

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Life on a council estate in Brexit London -- gentrification plans bring astronomic bill for homeowners and aggravate the community. In the eye of the storm Irina, a Bulgarian single mother, tries to breakthrough as an architect and refuses to live on benefits like most of her neighbors. She galvanizes the homeowners to appeal against bill with the Council but the English assure her that any attempt to fight the system is doomed. Irina's family and people living on benefits clash over the ownership of a cat. А different side of British society is revealed to her and she realizes she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind. She takes a drastic decision to change her life.

Director: Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva
Producer: Christophe Bruncher, Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva, Lambros Atteshlis
Screenwriter: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Production Co: Ici et Là Productions, Activist38
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 23, 2020
Runtime: 1h 31m

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