Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
What the critics are saying:
Problemista is smart, sly, and so silly, balancing all its stresses and
social commentary with a sense of wonder at the wild world and those who
populate it.
Kimber Myers
Crooked Marquee
Torres gifts Swinton with a frazzled but larger-than-life character and
the Oscar-winning actor — one of the best in the business — makes the
most of it.
Randy Myers
San Jose Mercury News
It’s a marvelous mixture of surrealism and social satire that depicts
the American dream as a nightmare of bureaucracy and phone calls to
customer service. There’s nothing more absurd, the film argues, than the
mundane.
Shirley Li
The Atlantic