Platonic love between virtual strangers helps ease the pain of grief in 'Language Lessons,' the tender first feature from Natalie Morales, who also stars opposite co-writer Mark Duplass. By David ...

A very clever exercise in what might be called neo-mumblecore filmmaking, “Language Lessons” was co-written by mumblecore founding father Mark Duplass (“Hannah Takes the Stairs”), who also produced ...

In the opening scene of the new movie “Language Lessons,” Cariño, a Spanish teacher in Costa Rica, virtually meets her new client Adam, who lives in Oakland. Cariño is played by Natalie Morales, who ...

Early pandemic films immediately adapted to Zoom rooms and settings, but something was usually missing from them. It was hard to form an attachment to a movie full of Zoom screens without immediately ...

A chat with Adam & Cariño. One of my favorite films of 2021 is this wonderful little gem called Language Lessons, directed by and starring Cuban-American actress / filmmaker Natalie Morales, and ...

Morales teams up with co-writer and co-star Mark Duplass for a friendship study that connects to the age of quarantine, even if it's not expressly about it. “Language Lessons” is plainly a feat of ...