Comeuppance for the Rich, at Least on the Screen Elisabeth Malkin - The New York Times
go to original May 31, 2013

Nosotros Los Nobles trailer (JoeRiobamba)

MEXICO CITY — “Why are they taking everything away from us, like in Venezuela?” wails Barbie Noble, a spoiled rich girl crammed into a getaway cab with her two brothers as the family flees a police raid on their sumptuous mansion.

A business scam, all the money is lost, explains her father, twisting around from the front seat to break the news to his 20-something children slouched in the back.

Dusk is falling as their decrepit cab bounces across this city, and from the window, the Noble children watch a collage of misfortune and decay: graffiti splashed across crumbling cement walls; weary vendors packing up market stalls; ragged workers trudging home over pockmarked pavements.

That trip is the only serious moment in the Mexican farce “We Are the Nobles,” a movie hit here that inflicts blunt trauma on any suggestion that Mexico may soon emerge as a middle-class country.

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