The Mole Agent — 4.5/5
Do all great movies have a touch of ridiculous to them? If something is too normal, if it makes too much sense, is it then less likely to touch God? The premise of this movie isn't entirely absurd—I buy into a detective hiring an elderly man to infiltrate an old folks home to find signs of abuse—but the display of it feels too organized. There are too many cameras, too many microphones. But from there, then, that beginning, chaos and love and beauty and heartbreak and despair. What a wonderful movie. It does not dive too deeply into anyone's life, but the way it brushes its hand over those lives, you get a sense of not who they were but how they are. And as with 'Jury Duty,' it all works because they chose the right person to be our center. Even if not all is true, it's true through them. Sergio Chamy is an infiltrator and a gentleman; being a hero through virtue of simply being there, telling someone it's okay to cry.
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