A powerful portrait of addiction with a compassionate, yet never excusatory, approach driven by Barrera is the performance of her career.
Chama (Barrera) is a single mother, unemployed and struggling with addiction, leading life as demonstrated by her own mother and upbringing, yet desperately wanting to change for the sake of her own daughter. A journey through many ups and downs, presented not with exploitation but with a harrowing level of realism, which eventually leads to a rehab centre administered by Hurley from Lost. And yet that step through the door is but one of many on the road to recovery.
Director Ryan Lacen partnere with New Mexico not for profit Bold Future to develop the story of trauma, substance use and parenting and the result is a film both haunting in its realistic depiction of poverty like those two recliners in the dirt yard - I swear I have driven past that house and equally haunting through dreamlike interludes such as the rain of black feathers as Barrera transcends her mortal state through chemical assistance.
Raw and real - a less soul crushing, latinx companion piece to Requiem for a Dream.
A powerful portrait of addiction with a compassionate, yet never excusatory, approach driven by Barrera is the performance of her career.
Chama (Barrera) is a single mother, unemployed and struggling with addiction, leading life as demonstrated by her own mother and upbringing, yet desperately wanting to change for the sake of her own daughter. A journey through many ups and downs, presented not with exploitation but with a harrowing level of realism, which eventually leads to a rehab centre administered by Hurley from Lost. And yet that step through the door is but one of many on the road to recovery.
Director Ryan Lacen partnere with New Mexico not for profit Bold Future to develop the story of trauma, substance use and parenting and the result is a film both haunting in its realistic depiction of poverty like those two recliners in the dirt yard - I swear I have driven past that house and equally haunting through dreamlike interludes such as the rain of black feathers as Barrera transcends her mortal state through chemical assistance.
Raw and real - a less soul crushing, latinx companion piece to Requiem for a Dream.
