Kita y Fernanda

Description
Through deep reflections on language's borders, and careful considerations of relationships in flux, Tanya Saracho's searing chronicle of the budding, bilingual bond between Kita, the daughter of an undocumented maid, and Fernanda, the Mexican-American princess whose mother employs said maid, feels rich enough to demand a second viewing. Saracho's new script has its weak bits, including tepid and instructive monologues on the distance between white and Latino cultures. But every moralizing moment redeems itself with an instance of true instruction. Ann Filmer's quartet of dynamic actors takes ample advantage of a superlative script.—CS