La jaula de oro
La jaula de oro
Director:
Diego Quemada-DiezCámara:
María SeccoReparto:
Karen Martínez, Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Carlos Chajon, Héctor Tahuite, Luis Alberti, Ricardo Esquerra, Gilberto Barraza, Juan Carlos MedellinSinopsis(1)
Tres jóvenes de los barrios bajos de Guatemala viajan a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. En el camino a través de México conocen a Chauk, un indígena de la sierra de Chiapas que no habla español. Viajando juntos en trenes de carga, caminando en las vías del tren, pronto tendrán que enfrentarse a la dura realidad. (Golem Distribución)
(más)Reseñas (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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