Ilo Ilo (2014)

Filipino woman travels to Singapore to take a job as a housekeeper/nanny. The family doesn’t have much money, the wife is both controlling and jealous, and the 10-year-old boy is, frankly, an asshole. But somehow, it's still a prime position. By the time the family has to inevitably let her go due to financial constraints, the boy has become attached.

The film was never quite as moving as I thought it could have been, e.g. the nanny has an infant child back home but I couldn’t tell if that was causing her any great pain. Still, not bad.

B-