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MOVIN' ON UP Newcomer Pedro Castaneda is working without papers in August Evening
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Limited Release: Sep 05, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 128 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Pedro Castaneda and Veronica Loren
B+
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
This uncommonly observant, award-winning first feature by Chris Eska — about an aging, undocumented Mexican worker in Texas (Castaneda, a novice and a discovery) who urges his widowed daughter-in-law (Loren) to remarry — echoes Yasujiro Ozu's classic 1962 film An Autumn Afternoon in title, theme, and gentle spirit. The filmmaker of August Evening creates a succession of quiet, elliptical scenes that accrue into an affecting big picture of family ties and immigrant experience. The story sometimes moves at a crawl, but always the filmmaker follows the pair with unobtrusive attentiveness to conflicting cultural and generational pulls. B+
Posted Sep 05, 2008
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