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Widower turned sleuth reflects on old age in Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary

Widower turned sleuth reflects on old age in Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary

LUCILA SIGAL  AN 83-year-old widower on a mission to investigate potential abuse at a nursing home reveals telling lessons about the trials of growing old in Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi's Oscar-nominated documentary "The Mole Agent." Although the story rings like the plot of a fiction film, the drama that unfolds is real. The tender and touching feature film, nominated for best documentary, is the only Latin American nominated for an Academy Award. With equal doses of humor and film noir, the 90-minute documentary tells the story of Sergio Chamy, a confounded but enthusiastic sleuth who barely knows how to handle…
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‘Juno’ actor Elliot Page becomes first trans man to star on Time magazine cover

‘Juno’ actor Elliot Page becomes first trans man to star on Time magazine cover

HUGO GREENHALGH OSCAR-NOMINATED actor Elliot Page will become the first transgender man to star on the front cover of Time when the magazine's latest edition goes on sale on Friday. Page, 34, who was nominated for various awards for Oscar-winning 2007 independent film "Juno" and plays a leading role in the current Netflix hit "The Umbrella Academy", announced he was trans in December. The actor wrote on Instagram at the time that he could not "begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self". Page follows in the footsteps of…
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