“Housekeeping for Beginners” begins with a shot of a painting on a wall hanging just a little askew. It’s an apt metaphor for what’s in store, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy. Writer and director Goran Stolevski gives us an untypical family portrait that’s brilliantly political without being preachy, loving without being maudlin and epic by being specifically tiny. This is the complex story set mostly in a villa outside Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia. It has become a refuge for those not in the mainstream — queer, Roma or a mix of both, ethnic minorities colliding with sexual ones in a repressive, traditional society.
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