La jaula de oro
Regie:
Diego Quemada-DiezCamera:
María SeccoActeurs:
Karen Martínez, Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Carlos Chajon, Héctor Tahuite, Luis Alberti, Ricardo Esquerra, Gilberto Barraza, Juan Carlos MedellinSamenvattingen(1)
Juan, Sara en Samuel zijn 15 jaar wanneer ze hun thuisland Guatemala ontvluchten om via Mexico de grens bij de Verenigde Staten over te steken. Onderweg ontmoeten ze de indiaan Chouk die geen Spaans spreekt en geen officiële documenten heeft. Ze geloven allemaal dat er in Amerika een betere toekomst op ze staat te wachten, maar al snel wordt de harde realiteit duidelijk. (September Film)
(meer)Recensie (2)
A perfect example of a festival art film, i.e., the type of film I was afraid of before I went to Karlovy Vary. It’s an endless road movie with a minimum of words and a repetitive plot. The montage of shots from the front of the train through various landscapes is amazing, whereas the rest is about convincing yourself not to leave the screening.
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Cultivated and non-pandering, but far from unbiased, hard and free from melodrama (the superfluous motif of snow, lyrical shots from the train, overuse of moving music, inconspicuous adoration of a common community of refugees). It rather resembles a cleverly shot compilation of several similarly tuned images. But it never has the intensity and rawness to bite too deeply a viewer trained in economical Central American films. In any case, Quemada-Diez is a skilled filmmaker, and his debut is sympathetically reminiscent of Fukunaga's Sin Nombre. Compared to Sin Nombre, in this film there is no artificially-built storyline, but The Golden Dream touches on a very similar humanistic ethos.
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