Film Foward Review: The Box

In Lorenzo Vigas’s The Box (La Caja), Hatzín (Hatzín Navarrete), a 14-year-old boy, is sent by his grandmother to pick up the remains of a father he never knew. On his return home from the mass grave site in northern Mexico, he notices a man who closely resembles the photo on his father’s driver’s license, the only form of identification the boy has of his parent. Convinced that this stranger is his father, he doggedly insinuates himself into Mario’s (Hernán Mendoza) life.

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