Arriving on the festival circuit just as a group of Ivy League-educated millionaires in Congress punted on raising the minimum wage, Edson Jean’s Ludi is an often riveting work of social realism following its title character, a health care aide played by Shein Mompremier as the chases her American Dream. A Haitian immigrant living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, she engages in spirited debates throughout her daily life, asking her bus driver why he left a dictator in Haiti while embracing Trump’s Maga politics. For Ludi, anything is possible in the US even if she often feels as if she’s working to survive. In one passage we learn her job at a nursing home has taken away her vacation days because she didn’t use them.
Always seeking out overtime and extra shifts, Ludi reluctantly takes her roommate Blanca (Madelin Marchant) up on the offer of a home aide visit,...
Always seeking out overtime and extra shifts, Ludi reluctantly takes her roommate Blanca (Madelin Marchant) up on the offer of a home aide visit,...
- 3/16/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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