“A canny blend of detective story, political drama and rites of passage vignette.”
THE BOX / LA CAJA
A film by Lorenzo Vigas
(Venezuela/Mexico/USA, 2021, 92 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Set in the harsh landscape of northern Mexico, The Box is Vigas’ third and last installment of his fiction trilogy on the theme of the father figure. The Box tells the story of Hatzín, a young teenager from Mexico City who travels to northern Mexico to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in a communal grave amidst huge skies and an empty landscape. On the way home, Hatzín spots a man and is instantly convinced he is his father. Adamant, he forces his way into the man’s life and becomes involved in what he believes is the family business—the exploitative recruitment of factory workers.
Hatzín soon finds himself in a high-stakes, blood-laced coming of age story. While his identity crisis is common to most adolescents, this one is told in the context of a country where so many missing persons are found in communal graves, converting it into a collective identity crisis. A MUBI release.
Opens Friday, November 4
Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street, New York City
For tickets and more information: https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/the-box.html
Premieres Friday, November 11 on MUBI
