Visions du Réel Doc ‘The Home’ Sketches a Microcosmos of South Africa via a Jewish Nursing Home
Emiliano Granada Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel’s second virtual edition frames multiple titles – “The Bubble, “My Old Man” and “The Home” portraying an ever growing and aging demographic and the conditions in which its members live the final stage of their lives.The debut feature documentary of Chase Musslewhite and Jesse Zinn, the later also VdR with short film “Wavelengths,” “The Home,” like “The Bubble,” plumbs the world of residential homes with an empathetic eye.Having passed through IFP Film Week as well as the Sheffield Meet Market, the doc, which is funded by South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation, playfully examines the lives of the Highland House’s residents and those who take care of them -mostly Black women-