25 degrés en hiver (2004)

In the shrewd French drama 25 degrés en hiver (2004), director Stéphane Vuillet gets some unexpectedly comic mileage out of the immigration situation in contemporary France. Carmen Maura, a regular leading lady in the films of Pedro Almodóvar, stars as Abuelita, a feisty mother who offers assistance to an illegal immigrant from the Ukraine (Ingeborga Dapkunaite). The dire situation is made amusing when the charismatic women bumble through a series of near misses with the authorities. Blonde Lithuanian beauty Dapkunaite also has some most fortunate near misses with her wardrobe, treating Vuillet’s viewers to an ample bounty of skin.