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7 Boxes

7 cajas

2012

Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori

Lali Gonzalez, Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Tito Jara ...

6.8

3,820

Thriller. Action It's Friday night in Asunción, Paraguay and the temperature is sweltering. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a fancy cellphone in the infamous Mercado 4. He's offered a chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for a quick US$100. But what sounds like an easy job soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted and Víctor and his pursuers quickly ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Robert Koehler Variety	"The pic makes a pleasurable surplus from minimal resources and plenty of ironic-comic-violent storytelling energy"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Crackles with the desperate energy of forced innovation. When there’s no room on the spreadsheet for fancy special effects, making do can yield its own rewards."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A slum-set crime story (...) '7 Boxes' makes excellent use of a setting unknown to most American viewers"	POS

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