SummaryIn 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.
Directed By:Luke Lorentzen
Written By:Luke Lorentzen
Midnight Family
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Universal Acclaim
81
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6.6
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100% Positive
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Dec 6, 2019
100
This is one of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark, luxuriating in the vastness of almost-empty avenues lit by buzzing streetlamps. It's a real-life answer to fiction movies like "Taxi Driver," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Collateral," "Nightcrawler" and "The Sweet Smell of Success."
Feb 1, 2019
90
Portraits of institutional dysfunction don’t come much more urgent, and quietly bleak, than this.
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Jan 24, 2021
9
Con cámara en mano y con personajes reales, podemos observar con realismo la rutina de los equipos de emergencia mientras la ciudad duerme, con las situaciones límite que enfrentan cada día. Uno de los documentales que no se deben perder de vista.
Apr 20, 2021
7
I do not know whether to say that the best of all is that it is real or that is the saddest thing. The documentary, beautiful.
Feb 26, 2020
80
Somehow Lorentzen shows that it is not the Ochoa family who are the bad guys, but the whole rotten system.
Dec 2, 2019
75
It’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.
Dec 12, 2019
70
What’s indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.
Jan 8, 2020
67
By telling a Mexican story, Lorentzen arguably speaks more directly to an American audience.
Jan 9, 2021
7
Se nos muestra la realidad que se vive en la Ciudad de México; una gran falta de un buen servicio médico.
Production Company:
- Hedgehog Films
- No Ficción
Release Date:Dec 6, 2019
Duration:1 h 21 m
Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
