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Ratcatcher
Why this pick
Its child’s-eye view of poverty finds moments of dreamlike beauty amid grim surroundings, echoing the tenderness, menace, and visual poetry beneath The Young and the Damned’s social realism.
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MOVIE1950 1h 25m MEX
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is about a group of destitute children and their misfortunes in a Mexico City slum. El Jaibo escapes adolescence jail and reunites with the street gang that he leads. They attempts to rob a blindness street musician and, failing at first, later track him down, beat him, and destroy his instruments.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jorge Pérez
Pelón
Sergio Virel
Gang Member