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'