The Box

Original title: La caja

2021
15
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

865

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A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.

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A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

865

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Awards
- 10 wins & 17 nominations

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Director Lorenzo Vigas is kind of a godfather to the young actor Hatzin Navarrete. On his own words: "I saw an interview of this kid [Navarrete] talking about his own father and the relationship with his own father, and he has a lot of pain coming from that place in his heart. So I knew that he was going to bring a lot to the film. And it was very hard for him to make the film but at the same time, it opened him up to a new kind of life. And now he wants to become an actor professionally as a career, and I will continue to mentor him on that journey."

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9/10

Brilliantly elliptical story of a boy in search of a father, dead or alive

The film initially grabs you with its air of mystery, all the things it hasn't told you about what's happened in the past. And then it sucks you into a story in the present, a criminal education, and a wonderfully ambiguous relationship between the boy and his new employer. But what does the boy really make of it all?

It's fast moving, engaging, often surprising, but never opaque. What holds you, apart from a magnetic central performance, is the style: every shot seems to containing meaning, and edited to the very bare bones.

The director made an earlier film, From Afar, that was also powerfully cinematic; this is its equal.