Sad and hopeful at the same time, this tale of Carlos, a gardener with no green card and single father of 14 year old Luis was Amy's choice a few weeks ago and she, Jack, and I liked it a lot. Demián Bichir (Esteban on Weeds) is wonderful as Carlos and José Julián's Luis promises more good things from him. Director Chris Weitz (About a Boy (2002), more, including one of the Twilight movies) has crafted a delicately balanced drama from a story by Roger L. Simon (novel and script for The Big Fix (1978), co-wrote the script for Roger Mazursky's Scenes from a Mall (1991) which starred Woody Allen and Bette Midler, among other projects) and screenplay by Eric Eason.
Prolific composer Alexandre Desplat (details in both The Ghost Writer and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, plus The King's Speech and Tree of Life) provides a beautiful score, potential for another Oscar nomination (four so far). Go to the amazon page and click Play all samples.
If you have time, you may be able to catch this at the dollar theatre. Otherwise, save it in your netflix queue for its future DVD release.
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