Dennis Harvey Film CriticThose who complain “immigrants are stealing our jobs” hardly seem likely applicants for the jobs held by protagonists in “Fruits of Labor” — such as cleaning other people’s houses or working the graveyard shift in a food processing plant.
Constant hard work doesn’t seem to bring the American Dream much closer for this Mexican American family on California’s central coast.
Emily Cohen Ibanez’s debut feature provides a flavorful glimpse at lives seldom represented in popular media, though she also obfuscates that view somewhat with fussily artistic fillips and a disinterest in some basic matters of explication.A discussion-worthy item on the fest circuit, the documentary was acquired for U.S.
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