La jaula de oro
Réalisation:
Diego Quemada-DiezPhotographie:
María SeccoActeurs·trices:
Karen Martínez, Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Carlos Chajon, Héctor Tahuite, Luis Alberti, Ricardo Esquerra, Gilberto Barraza (plus)Résumés(1)
Originaires du Guatemala, Juan, Sara et Samuel aspirent à une vie meilleure et tentent de se rendre aux Etats-Unis. Pendant leur périple à travers le Mexique, ils rencontrent Chauk, un indien du Chiapas ne parlant pas l'espagnol et qui se joint à eux. Mais, lors de leur voyage dans des trains de marchandises ou le long des voies de chemin de fer, ils devront affronter une dure et violente réalité... (Pretty Pictures)
(plus)Critiques (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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