Throwback Sundays this week spotlights the feature length debut of Peter Sollett. Sollett made a short film called Five Feet High and Rising that opened at Sundance. He returned there a year or two later with this feature, same characters (with a few more), same story, same approach, same genius.
"Raising Victor Vargas is an achingly lovely movie about the denizens of a Lower East Side Puerto Rican neighbourhood made by a Caucasian director (Sollett) who's big on subverting expectations. The novice cast members improvise their dialogue with unself-conscious ease, cinematographer Tim Orr makes a tenement building look warm and inviting, and the ending is so low key as to induce goose pimples. Humane until it feels revolutionary."
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/toptens/top102003.htm
See the trailer below, then do yourself a favor and rent or buy this film at once:
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