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New Orleans Film Society

Mrs. Carmella Prays

USA 7 min.

Directors
Patrick Jackson / Daneeta Loretta Jackson

Synopsis

In her extended Italian Catholic family, 89-year-old Mrs. Carmella is the last survivor of her generation of Depression-era babies. Making peace with the notion that her death is imminent, she settles into a meditative prayer ritual that includes family, neighbors, and, well, the entire world.