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Like its subject, “Lillian” is a film that moves slowly and surely, but ultimately has a remarkable impact. A “fictional documentary” whose inspiration is portrayed by its very source, David D. Williams’s film documents a day in the life of Lillian Folley, a
57-year-old African American caretaker whose Richmond house provides a hopeful start for foster children and a dignified end for the elderly.
On the surface, the things that happen in the course of Lillian’s long day — she is first up and last to sleep — are mundane events. Williams’s triumph is not that he ennobles Lillian — she doesn’t need that kind of patronizing — but that he recognizes the quiet strength that allows her to function in the face of others’ constant needs.
Lillian moves with the assuredness of a nurse in an emergency room, which her house often resembles. It is populated with four young children, including Lillian’s 7-year-old granddaughter, Nina (Wilhamenia Dickens), and three elderly boarders. One group is abandoned by their parents, the other by their children; it’s Lillian who becomes the center of their lives and the caretaker of their needs.
She seems to be always in motion, from one floor to another, answering phones, dealing with events too small to be called crises, but clearly crucial to the parties involved. They include getting the kids off to school and changing diapers, chiding a daughter into moving her dying mother to a hospital, negotiating insurance payments and making meals.

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from nytimes:
David Williams’ movie “Thirteen” belongs to a burgeoning genre that determinedly blurs the line between fiction and documentary filmmaking. Largely improvised, with no screenplay and featuring a cast that includes untrained actors as well as professionals, this portrait of a sullen, quirky 13-year-old black girl growing up in Richmond, Va., feels utterly real during much (though not all) of its 87 minutes.

Nina (Wilhamenia Dickens), the movie’s unsmiling central character, is a tomboyish adolescent who shortly after her 13th birthday becomes withdrawn and stops speaking. One day she simply disappears from the house where she lives with her salty, God-fearing mother, Lillian (Lillian Folley), who narrates the film. When Nina reappears several days later from an autumnal trek into the Virginia mountains, she is a bit less glum than before.

While she wanders through the countryside contemplating her life, Nina decides that the one thing she wants more than anything is to own a car. Much of the rest of the film follows her around as she futilely tries to earn enough money to buy one. She applies for various entry-level jobs, works as a baby sitter, cares for people’s pets and sits for a portrait painted by a mediocre local artist.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

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