Nosotros, los Nobles (We, the Nobles)

Who says that only Hollywood can make great movies or that you need an impressive budget to do so? Well, Alazraki films demonstrates again that this is so untrue. With a limited budget this 2013 Mexican movie grossed more than 26 millions which makes it the most successful film of all time.
It tells the story of Germán Noble (Gonzalo Vega) a millionaire and a widower that realizes a bit too late that his soon-to-be grownup children Javier (Luis Gerardo Méndez), Bárbara (Karla Souza) y Carlos (Juan Pablo Gil) are nothing of what he wanted them to be, so he plans to teach them a lesson and pretends he has suddenly lost all his money so all their cars are taken away, plus their cell phones are cut off and credit cards are cancelled. They all go to the abandoned house of Germán´s father that he never sold out of nostalgia and thus forces his children to get jobs and leave the shallow lives they had behind. Javier becomes a bus driver, Barbara a waitress and Carlos and office worker. Eventually, German's children will learn their own value as individuals without their fortune or social position. But also German will learn his lesson as well: his mistake was not to give too much to his children, but that he preferred to run his company and neglected to be the father his children needed him to be.
The acting is superb. It is a comedy but there is a lot of social criticism here. Seeing two different lifestyles and the conflicts existing between the members of the social levels existing in Mexico. So the story touches everyone especially Latino Americans. Not entirely a family film but a film worth seeing anyway.
Five stars out of five for this one.

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