What We Leave Behind
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| ARRAY Releasing | Release Date: September 23, 2022 |
Movie Facts:
- Available to stream on Netflix beginning September 30, 2022.
Summary:
After a lifetime of bus rides to the United States to visit his children, Julián Moreno quietly begins building a house in his rural Mexico at the age of 89. In filming his work and final days, his granddaughter, Iliana Sosa, crafts a piercingly personal and poetic love letter to her elder and his homeland.
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Sep 29, 2022
Sosa, who shared cinematography duties with two other women, Judy Phu and Monica Wise, depicts a world of humble beauty, of sunrises and dogs and chickens and weed-strewn lots. With a measured pacing (the film was edited by co-writer Isidore Bethel), she has created a film that is more like an elegy than a simple chronicle of events.
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Sep 29, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
What We Leave Behind is about generations passing on their hard-earned wisdom. It offers an insider’s glimpse into our neighbor’s culture. Some may find its lack of emotional peaks – save for, perhaps, the ending – exasperating, while others may regard it as a well-edited and shot home movie. But look a little deeper. There’s real poetry here.
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