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Maite Alberdi: Lessons learnt making The Mole Agent
In the Chilean documentary The Mole Agent, 85-year-old Sergio goes undercover in a retirement home to discover if his client鈥檚 mother is being mistreated by staff. What begins as a spy caper gradually becomes a moving meditation on ageing and loneliness.
Director Maite Alberdi tells us the four lessons she took from making the film, including why directing a documentary is like improvising jazz music.
(Photo: R贸mulo Aitken and Sergio Chamy in The Mole Agent. Credit: Gravitas Ventures)
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