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A Star Is Born In ‘Flophouse America’: Captivating Mikal Navigates Poverty And His Parents’ Drinking In CPH:DOX World Premiere
'Flophouse America,' a documentary about a Florida family living on the margins, held its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
In the directorial debut of Norwegian photographer Monica Strømdahl, the captivating young Mikal spends a lot of his time as the responsible one in the household – regularly washing dishes in the bathtub, for instance, or tending to Smoky’s needs – while his parents occupy themselves drinking and smoking. At times, Jason and Tonya seem to border on George and Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, bickering with each other as Mikal listens or, more often than not, tunes it out with earphones on, playing video games. Yet the spats never reach George-and-Martha levels of acrimony and viciousness; perhaps the most common words spoken between parents – and between Jason, Tonya and Mikal – are “I love you.”
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