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The Wall of Mexico

2019

Jackson Rathbone, Esai Morales, Marisol Sacramento, Carmela Zumbado ...

Comedy. Drama Don, a young handyman, is hired by the Aristas, a wealthy Mexican-American family with two outrageously decadent daughters. The source of the Aristas' wealth is a mystery to Don. Living in nearby Winfield, he soon learns tensions are high between the Aristas and the poor white townspeople, and that this has something to do with the Aristas’ well, which Don is asked to guard at night.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"An overlong but provocative fable (...) [Zyzak and Cotler] have made some miscalculations that undermine what could have been a powerful exposé of present-day xenophobia."	NEU
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Although the film’s allegorical references are easy to suss out, it is nice to see our current border-wall mess addressed from the other side of the divider"	POS

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