Wealth, corruption and immorality are under intense scrutiny in a clutch of films being released this autumn
, which was snapped up by Amazon shortly after winning the grand jury prize at Sundance earlier this year. The horror-tinged debut of the writer-director Nikyatu Jusu, it stars Anna Diop as Aisha, a Senegalese au pair caring for the daughter of a wealthy white Manhattan couple while yearning for her own child back home.
The script emerged from Jusu’s experiences and observations: while at New York University’s graduate film school, she would see “all these Black and brown women pushing white children in pushchairs, and I was curious about that story. My mother did domestic work, so I had the experience of watching her put her dreams to the side to be a peripheral mother in other mothers’ narratives. And I knew that most nanny films centre on the white family.” Not this one.
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