The Box
La Caja, feature film, USA, Mexico, 2021
DIRECTED BY: Lorenzo Vigas
							                                                                        
                          CAST:
                            Hatzin Navarrete,
 Hernán Mendoza,
 Elián González,
 Cristina Zulueta,
 Dulce Alexa Alfaro
                        
                          SCRIPT:
                            Lorenzo Vigas,
 Paula Markovitch
                        
                          PHOTOGRAPHY:
                            Sergio Armstrong G.
                        
                          EDITING:
                            Isabela Monteiro de Castro,
 Pablo Barbieri
                        
                          Synopsis:
                            
Winner of the Golden Lion for his debut From Afar (ZFF 2015), Lorenzo Vigas delivers a dark psychological thriller about a boy who obsessively tries to infiltrate a stranger’s life, convinced it’s his father. Hatzin is traveling home from a remote mining town, carrying a box with the remains of his father, a migrant worker who died in a work-related accident. On the way, he spots a man who reminds him of his father. The film has screened in Venice, Toronto and San Sebastián, and owes its fascinating aesthetics to cinematographer Sergio Armstrong, a frequent collaborator of Pablo Larraín.
Subtitles: EN, HR
color, 90'