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In this surrealistic film writer-director Julio Torres provides an unusual twist the story of an immigrant struggling mightily to stay in this country but is harrassed by a soulless immigration bureacracy. The film is surrealistic in that its eager hero Alejandro (played by Torres himself) doesn’t just walk but prances about. As a child in El Salvador …
Writer-director Celine Song leaves the fantasy world of The Wheel of Time, which she scripted, to give us a heart-warming story set in the present world of the romantic, yet pragmatic. Divided into three parts, hers is a spiritual film, though that of Buddhism rather than Christianity. It is infused with such wisdom and restraint …