Film
El Mar La Mar
- Director
- Joshua Bonnetta, JP Sniadecki
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 95 mins
The notion of an impressionistic art house cine-essay shot on the migrant trail on the border between Mexico and the US is certain to raise hackles. But El Mar La Mar has been positively received in some quarters.
“Initially I had misgivings about its approach: the desperate plight of undocumented immigrants getting the experimental arthouse treatment struck me as unfeeling and irrelevant. But the film’s narcotic strangeness forces you to look again at a familiar headline story, treated unsensationally and sensitively,” reckoned The Guardian‘s reviewer, while acknowledging that this is most definitely not for all tastes: “Their film pushes the limits of documentary filmmaking and will likely push the tolerance of viewers. This is a demanding watch, the arthouse cinema equivalent of the marshmallow experiment, testing the attention span of audiences.”
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