#609: YOUNG, Robert M.: ¡Alambrista! (1977)
YOUNG, Robert M. (United States)
¡Alambrista! [1977]
Spine #609
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
In ¡Alambrista!, a Mexican farmworker sneaks across the border to California to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center. ¡Alambrista!, winner of the Cannes Film Festival's inaugural Caméra d'Or in 1978, remains one of the best films ever made on this perennially relevant topic.
96 minutes
Color
Color
Stereo
in English and Spanish
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writer
Robert M. Young was 53 when he wrote and directed ¡Alambrista!
Other Young films in the Collection:
#940: The Ballad Of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
The Film
Other Young films in the Collection:
#940: The Ballad Of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Ten-page wraparound featuring an essay by film historian Charles Ramirez Berg.
Commentary
Featuring director Young and coproducer Michael Hausman.
Interview
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Ten-page wraparound featuring an essay by film historian Charles Ramirez Berg.
Commentary
Featuring director Young and coproducer Michael Hausman.
Interview
With actor Olmos.
Children of the Fields (1973)
Children of the Fields (1973)
A short documentary by Young, accompanied by an interview with the director.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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