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Language
Español
Description
India María travels to the United States, where she works as an undocumented alien in Los Angeles. After accidentally witnessing the assassination of a political figure, María must go on the lam from "La Migra" (the immigration service), agents of the FBI (whom she assumes work for La Migra), and the assassins themselves.
Series
Criterion collection volume 609
Language
English
Description
A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...