53 Sundays (now on Netflix) presents the burning question: How many bickering siblings does it take to change a lightbulb? That’s not a joke or a metaphor but a literalism in Spanish director Cesc Gay’s adaptation of his stage play of the same title. Carmen Machi and Javier Gutierrez lead the four-way ensemble in a three-act story that mostly plays out two people at a time in a single location, and the result is funny, prickly and ultimately gently poignant.
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The Gist: Carol (Alexandra Jimenez) isn’t one of the siblings. She’s an in-law who functions as a sort of objective entry point to the story, and talks directly at us as she info-dumps a whole bunch of stuff on us right off the bat, outlining the personalities of these middle-aged people who are about to argue in various states of aggression and passive
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