Midnight Family
By turns terrifying and exhilarating, 'Midnight Family' unfolds with such velocity that it...leave[s] you gasping.
Midnight Family
In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As the Ochoas try to make a living in this fraught industry, they struggle to keep their dire finances from compromising the people in their care.
"A gripping doc...serving as his own cinematographer and editor, director Lorentzen generates intense empathy... The film achieves a powerful measure of suspense that’s intricately tied up in its despairing sociological depiction of a system that’s come apart at the seams." ~ Nick Schager, Variety
"A gripping doc...serving as his own cinematographer and editor, director Lorentzen generates intense empathy... The film achieves a powerful measure of suspense that’s intricately tied up in its despairing sociological depiction of a system that’s come apart at the seams." ~ Nick Schager, Variety
Genre
Documentary,
Action,
Crime
Runtime
81
Language
Spanish
Director
Luke Lorentzen
Writer(s)
Luke Lorentzen
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Eric Kohn, Indiewire
Mexico City is a sprawling urban metropolis of nine million people, but it only has 45 official emergency ambulances to deal with its entire population’s needs. That alarming statistic sits at the center of Luke Lorentzen’s intimate verite documentary, which follows members of the Ochoa family as ...
Played at
Royal 12.13.19 - 12.19.19
Monica Film Center 12.20.19 - 12.24.19
Glendale 12.20.19 - 12.24.19
Playhouse 7 1.04.20 - 1.05.20
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