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‘Totem’ Review: A Mexican Family Portrait, Bursting With Beauty and Drama
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Mexican filmmaker Lila Aviles' follow-up to 'The Chambermaid' follows a chaotic family gathering through the eyes of a young girl.

unfolded in a fancy Mexico City hotel whose rooms the titular heroine was always striving to clean, perpetually trying to erase the evidence of guests.

Her follow-up,, in the main competition at this year’s Berlinale, also unfurls mostly in one large space, but it’s a kind of looking-glass inversion of’s clinical austerity. This time, the environment is not an anonymous hostelry, but a well-loved, thoroughly lived-in family home teeming with relatives, clutter

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