2015 · drama · guatemalan
Ixcanul
Directed by Jayro Bustamante1h 33m2015
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
Our read: Ixcanul (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · guatemalan entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / guatemalan, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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