VENICE (Reuters) – “The Box”, a Mexican movie competing for the top award at the Venice Film Festival, takes viewers inside textile sweatshops to shine a light on labour exploitation through the eyes of its protagonist, a teenager boy. “The problem is the little Chinese girls have tiny hands and they are very fast.”“The Box” is the closing part of Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’s trilogy about fraught relationships between fathers and sons. “Everyone in the north of Mexico depends on the factories,” Vigas told Reuters in an interview. Senseless violence in everyday life is also a theme in the background of “Sundown”, another Mexican film screening in Venice main competition line-up by director Michel Franco. “As a Mexican, you get used to hearing about violence every day,” Franco told Reuters.

Source: MetroXpress September 07, 2021 14:48 UTC