Venice Winner Lorenzo Vigas’s ‘The Box’ Boarded by The Match Factory
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variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features EditorLeading arthouse sales agency The Match Factory has acquired “The Box” (La Caja), the second feature of Mexican filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas, winner of Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion with “From Afar.” “The Box” is likely to find a berth at Cannes or Venice.The film follows Hatzin, a teenager from Mexico City, who travels to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in a communal grave in the northern part of Mexico.
But a casual encounter with a man who shares a physical resemblance with his father fills Hatzin with both doubts and hope about his parent’s true whereabouts.Vigas says that in the film he reflects on “the theme of identity from various points of view.” He adds: “Latin.
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