By Stephen Dalton Gente de bien Still Cannes - H 2014 CANNES – It sometimes feels like Latin American cinema has monopolized dramas about social and economic injustice for decades, right back to ...

When his mum goes off to find work, ten-year-old Eric is shipped off to stay with his handyman dad in a grimy Bogota boarding house. One of dad’s clients, a well-meaning university lecturer ...

19/05/2014 - CANNES 2014: Family and class relationships for the first feature film by Colombian Franco Lolli, a sensitive and humanist film produced by France ...

Gente de bien is a story about good intentions which do not manage to cross Colombia’s huge class barriers. It’s not easy being Eric! Barely ten years old, dumped by his mum, he finds himself ...

Here is a very decent slab of social realism from Columbia that, though beautifully acted throughout, never quite finds its focus. Eric (Bryan Santamaria), a charismatic 10-year-old, is sent to ...

Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying ...

The rift between rich and poor – a well used movie theme – gets dusted off and re-packaged in Franco Lolli’s Gente de Bien, set against a Latin American backdrop and detailing (in well ...

But this scene is well into the last act, when Gente de Bien finally gets down to the business of drama, which eventually leads to a cheap way to pull some sort of feeling from the film.

Eric, 10, finds himself living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping his headabove water and building a relationship with his son.