Lingua Franca’s Isabel Sandoval Wants You To See Beyond Labels
Isabel Sandoval makes her triumphant return with Lingua Franca, a fragile drama that burns with an understated intensity.
Isabel Sandoval makes her triumphant return with Lingua Franca, a fragile drama that burns with an understated intensity.
Lingua Franca, Isabel Sandoval’s third feature that’s premiering this week on Netflix, is the rare sort of film that upends your expectations without being even a little bit smug about it.
Power, or lack thereof, was on Isabel Sandoval’s mind when she was writing her third feature, Lingua Franca, about a trans, Filipina immigrant named Olivia in Brooklyn.
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