a genuine delight, and the surprise of the bradford international film festival for this viewer. former photographer eugenio polgovsky has produced a film that is incredibly slight, yet somehow overwhelmingly cinematic at the same time. the film is largely silent, with only the diagetic sounds of the mexican villagers the film centers on posing as aural interuptions. the sheer fact that the film shies away from modern attraction techniques yet still manages to work incredibly well says a lot.
as a fan of bresson an affinity towards realism was always apparent in my own viewing habits, alas the plight of the "stars" of the inheritors makes the lives of the put upon protagonists of bressons work seem easy going. a fellow viewer commented that he felt as though the film reeked of "poverty porn", whereby the audience would be not only manipulated into feeling a certain specific emotion, but the audience themselves would somehow be in 'cahoots' with the producers of the film and somehow be empowered by watching certain things.
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