{"id":10951,"date":"2015-07-25T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giff.mx\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2015-07-25T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:03:24","slug":"critic-the-thin-yellow-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/critic-the-thin-yellow-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Critic: The Thin Yellow Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dir. Celso Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Official Selection Feature Mexico<\/p>\n

\"Linea<\/a>The Richter Scale says<\/strong>: We all need a guide. Life is too complicated and overwhelming to have to go through it alone, which is why it\u2019s important to have a guide to give you an idea where you\u2019re going. One example is the yellow line in the middle of the road that tells you on which side of the road you should be driving on. That line doesn\u2019t get there by itself. In his feature debut, Celso R. Garc\u00eda explores the story of a team whose misi\u00f3n is to Paint the yellow line in the middle of the road from San Carlos to San Jacinto. They have two weeks to paint 217 kilometers and on the way, these five men will face different obstacles on the road, including those that arise from the conflict among them.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s greatest strength is its character creation. Our protagonist is Don To\u00f1o (Dami\u00e1n Alc\u00e1zar), a man in his early 60\u2019s who was just fired from his job as a night guard and as he\u2019s looking for a new job, an old foreman of his recognizes him and offers him this job. The team is made up of Gabriel (Joaqu\u00edn Cos\u00edo), a driver who had to quit driving due to problems qith his eyesight, , Atayde (Silverio Palacios) who used to work in a circus, Mario (Gustavo S\u00e1nchez Parra), a man who spent time in prison for stealing and is still fighting the impulse to steal, and Pablo (Am\u00e9rico Hollander) a young man who was abandoned by his father and has had to get by on his own. Each one of these men has a story and baggage that they bring to the road and the actors have such natural chemistry with each other that it doesn\u2019t even feel like they\u2019re acting, which helps the flow of the film.<\/p>\n

\"Linea<\/a>We spend most of this film on the road, but it\u2019s never boring, because the script keeps offering new situations for these characters to face (including rain and a truck that keeps breaking down) and it\u2019s constantly finding moments for our characters to visit a nearby town or a house on the road they can take shelter in so the audience can get to know them a Little better. It\u2019s a more traditional structure than we\u2019ve seen throughout the festival and even though it suffers from an unnecessary final twist, it has an excellent handle of humor and a keen sense of masculinity in the different forms we see in these five characters.<\/p>\n

This film will screen at 2:00 pm at the Ju\u00e1rez Theater.<\/p>\n

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Dir. Celso Garc\u00eda Official Selection Feature Mexico The Richter Scale says: We all need a guide. Life is too complicated and overwhelming to have to go through it alone, which is why it\u2019s important to have a guide to give you an idea where you\u2019re going. One example is the yellow line in the middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}