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Klawans, Stuart | May 13, 1996 issue

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The film "When Mother Comes Home for Christmas," opens with a pilgrimage, as round-faced, middle-aged Josephine Perera, sails by ferry to a Catholic shrine set amid mountains and deep blue waters. There, after lighting a candle, she consigns her children to the care of a heavenly mother. While her younger son, still a boy, is growing up in the dank confines of an orphanage in her native Sri Lanka. Josephine works as a domestic servant in Greece, cleaning a splendid modern house and caring for someone else's daughter. A title card explains that female domestic labor is now Sri Lanka's number one export commodity, having overtaken tea.

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WHEN Mother Comes Home for Christmas (Film); MOTION pictures; PILGRIMS & pilgrimages; DOMESTICS; ORPHANAGES; PERFORMING arts
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