The Ladies
USA, 2006, 13 mins
Director: Christina Alexandra Voros
7:00pm, Fri, Nov 2
at Metro
Festivals
- Nominated for a Student Academy Award
Description
When former Hungarian emigrants Vali and Mimi closed a couture shop on Lexington Avenue in New York, they kept a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87- and 93-year-old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the importance of family and the persistence of the creative spirit.