Lila Avilés’ miraculous hubbub of a family drama suggests that if it’s little Sol (an outstanding Naíma Sentíes), on the day her extended family gathers to celebrate her dying father’s birthday, there is almost no limit.

Limitless, too, is the liveliness that Avilés, in just her second feature after the acclaimed The Chambermaid, can cram into every crowded frame, while still spending enough time on each face that you get to know everyone intimately.

Every member of this big, boisterous family is navigating this difficult moment for themselves but, beautifully, also for each other. Joy, sorrow, cats, dogs, birds, bugs and babies —all of them are observed by Sol with the rapt, wishful fascination of a child learning how life coexists with death, and how endings, no matter how sad, are also beginnings in disguise.

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