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‘The Box’: Golden Lion Winner Lorenzo Vigas Crafts A Tense, Slow-Burn Coming-Of-Age Drama [TIFF Review]

Carlos Aguilar — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Comfortable in his newly found friendship, Hatzín (Hatzín Navarrete), a teenager from Mexico City who traveled to Chihuahua’s northern state to reclaim his father’s remains, pretends to be upset and explains he’s decided to return home. He laughs several seconds later, tricking Mario (Hernán Mendoza), his boss and impromptu life mentor.

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Proving he can convincingly lie on command is the first indication of the lengths to which the boy will go to protect this bond he holds so precious.

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We’re Baaaaack – Our Mexico Vacation Is Sadly Over

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:03:00 +0000

Mexico was amazing. Sayulita to be exact is a wonderful, amazing town full of amazing food and people (hello, Sayulita Fish Taco). We’re glad you guys actually stuck around to read the week we were gone. Thanks super muchas to Subterranean for blog-sitting for us while we were away. You did a fantastic job.

Maybe we’ll post our Mexico playlist on this very post later in the week (thanks to Jon Natchez for the excellent assistance).

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Adios We’re Off To Mexico

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:19:00 +0000

We’re off to Mexico for a long-overdue vacation. We’ve handed over The Playlist keys to some friends, so if you see any odd posts and or strange topics blame it on them; we’ll be too busy drinking margaritas, scarfing down fish tacos and tanning poolside to care too much [ed. We’re sure they’ll do a fine job. Look for their “I’m Not There” live concert review on Thursday].

We have pre-planned out some posts for next week, so you’ll see some of our/my specific handywork, but we’ll note that they’re kinda of random and won’t be tied into a lot of current events.

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