NEW YORK – “The Mole Agent” infiltrated a nursing home in Chile, and countless of hearts around the world including inside the film academy.
The moving documentary about an octogenarian hired as a rookie spy to investigate whether a client’s mother is suffering abuse in the facility is competing for an Oscar this Sunday, but director Maite Alberdi constantly doubted whether she would have enough for a movie. “I think the main challenge was that we were walking on eggshells,” said Alberdi, who on one hand feared that her protagonist Sergio Chamy would get tired and resign, or that the home's officials would discover that he was not just another tenant or that she was not actually filming a documentary about the life of the elderly, as she