It’s hard to fault Goran Stolevski’s “Housekeeping for Beginners” for being chaotic and miserable. That’s the mood he’s after — and he captures it with such assurance that the film is a tough watch.
Stolevski, a Macedonian who emigrated to Australia as a child, explores the bond between outcasts exiled from the culture at large. Our setting is Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, just a quick drive from Shutka, the country’s largest community of the traditionally nomadic people known as Romani or Roma. Here, on this border between cultures, an empathetic but exhausted social worker named Dita (Anamaria Marinca) has begrudgingly turned her home into a crash pad where she shelters three teenagers, played by Sara Klimoska, Rozafa Celaj and Ajse Useini.
