The Garden Left Behind

Name: The Garden Left Behind
Genre: Drama
Released: August 28, 2020
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Alex Kruz, Anthony Abdo, Bernadette Quigley, Carlie Guevara, Daniel Flaherty

2020

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Uncork'd Entertainment | Release Date (Streaming): August 28, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Kruz, Anthony Abdo, Bernadette Quigley, Carlie Guevara, Daniel Flaherty, Dawn Young, Edward Asner, Frances Lozada, Michael Madsen, Tamara M. Williams

Summary: The Garden Left Behind traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City.

Director: Flavio Alves

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Anthony Ray Bench

Feb 19, 2020

The Garden Left Behind is an amazing drama filled to the brim with realistic and heavy performances that will absolutely leave a lasting impression and subject matter that should more commonly be explored and celebrated. This film is special, and it deserves mass audience attention. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Feb 19, 2020

What’s mostly a vérité document of lead character Tina’s (Carlie Guevara) trajectory towards chemically transitioning from male to female despite being an undocumented immigrant in an expensive city like New York, Flavio Alves’ The Garden Left Behind is also a rather potent expression of humanity’s collective dysphoria. Read full review

Norman Gidney

Feb 19, 2020

The Garden Left Behind is a melancholy but strangely optimistic look at the struggles that some in the Trans community face every single day. It’s not a perfect film, but it is a movie with a message of tolerance and understanding. For that, it should be praised. Read full review

Caryn James

Feb 19, 2020

The flaws in The Garden Left Behind should not prevent anyone from appreciating the rich, compassionate story Alves has brought to the screen with such assurance, or the heroine Guevara has brought to life with such realism. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Jul 26, 2021

It’s not reasonable to ask that the film keeps Tina safe, but a sense from the start that things might end badly for her made me wince a little even during the lovely, authentic-feeling scenes of her life. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 19, 2020

It’s introductory by nature, polished yet primitive, just like the films that dominated gay big screen storytelling long before the alphabetic expansion to “LGBTQ.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Aug 28, 2020

The Garden Left Behind works best as a message movie, not for the community it’s set in but for everyone else. Read full review

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