La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 10/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its
May 31, 2013 Limited
Emerging Pictures
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The film wrings an almost bizarre amount of political, humanistic and spiritual substance out of this limited frame.
Top CriticAn unexpected and fascinating aspect of migration in the Americas, viewed in intimate close-up.
La Camioneta is a poetic, even dreamy, film that ultimately conveys the mystical sense of a transmigrated (mechanical) soul.
As modest and farsighted as its cast of Guatemalans who make a living resurrecting discarded American school buses.
This is powerful reportage, beautifully shot and gracefully laid out; too bad that Kendall ties it all up with more deep thoughts from the bus itself...
A lyrical probing of a culture precariously balanced between past and future, making do in the present by renovating American hand-me-downs.
A short and easygoing film, this is a great movie to take in before dinner and one you should see when it comes to your local art house. Do not miss this bus.
To climb aboard the colorful La Camioneta is to be taken on a lyrical journey - both anthropological and philosophical - to a place most of us would never be able to visit.
Perhaps Kendall's greatest strength is finding expressive Guatemalan faces.
Though Mark Kendall's documentary only alludes to the condition of "public" transportation in Guatemala, he gives us a clear feeling for the imminent danger of the job.
La Camioneta succeeds by telling the bus's story while also expanding upon the different people who have now become a part of the bus's orbit.
A work of sociological significance as well as a surprisingly personal account of a community that has ensured its survival by salvaging these buses.
The documentary is committed not to some pseudo-factual documentary tradition, but to a more engaging realist poesis.
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