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The filmmakers are better at fashioning haunting images than offering hard-nosed analysis, yet they never sentimentalize their young protagonists' plight. Sep 29, 2017 | Full Review…
The filmmakers are better at fashioning haunting images than offering hard-nosed analysis, yet they never sentimentalize their young protagonists' plight.
Richard Porton
A mesmerizing documentary both exotic and sad. May 19, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
A mesmerizing documentary both exotic and sad.
Tom Keogh
This is social documentary at its best. Apr 28, 2006 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
This is social documentary at its best.
Carina Chocano
... visually beautiful, unforced essay on legacies of colonialism. Apr 27, 2006
... visually beautiful, unforced essay on legacies of colonialism.
Ernest Hardy
While political and social context is kept to a minimum, the darkly poetic images they capture speak volumes about what the miners go through. Mar 28, 2006
While political and social context is kept to a minimum, the darkly poetic images they capture speak volumes about what the miners go through.
Frank Scheck
This beautiful, terrible story is not easily forgotten. Mar 22, 2006 | Rating: A | Full Review…
This beautiful, terrible story is not easily forgotten.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
This documentary which exposes the twin evils of child labor and silver mining, is a most powerful expose' of an ongoing, mass-scale human tragedy. Jun 16, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
This documentary which exposes the twin evils of child labor and silver mining, is a most powerful expose' of an ongoing, mass-scale human tragedy.
Kam Williams
The flawless progress of this documentary lies in the filmmakers' unwavering fealty to their subjects. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
The flawless progress of this documentary lies in the filmmakers' unwavering fealty to their subjects.
Maria Garcia
A horror movie? Nope -- documentary. Though there is, I think, a good horror movie to be made here. Oct 25, 2006 | Full Review…
A horror movie? Nope -- documentary. Though there is, I think, a good horror movie to be made here.
Luke Y. Thompson
The film has a tendency to repeat itself, even within its short running time of 82 minutes, but is still able to express a sincere sorrow. Jul 6, 2006 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
The film has a tendency to repeat itself, even within its short running time of 82 minutes, but is still able to express a sincere sorrow.
Jeffrey Chen
It's a simple film with a direct message, but the glimpses of the surrounding social culture that has adapted to the horrors give (it) its identity. May 18, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It's a simple film with a direct message, but the glimpses of the surrounding social culture that has adapted to the horrors give (it) its identity.
Sean Axmaker
It's a testament to the filmmakers' subtle storytelling skill that we come to see these boys as heroes as well as victims. May 11, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
It's a testament to the filmmakers' subtle storytelling skill that we come to see these boys as heroes as well as victims.
Rob Thomas
[font=Century Gothic]"The Devil's Miner" is a documentary about Basilio, a 14-year old mine worker in the silver mines in Bolivia, who has been working there for the last four years while his 12-year old brother assists him. Sometimes he works 24 hour shifts, gnawing on coca leaves to give him energy to stay awake. Life expectancy is 35-40 years for the average miner because of silicosis which is due to inhaled dust particles. Conditions in the mines are bad anyway because of risky explosions and poisonous gas. If his father had not died some years before, he would not have to work in the mines.(The mines were started in colonial times by the Spanish who exploited the Indio population as slaves. You can see how little things have changed over the years.)[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"The Devil's Miner" is a heartbreaking documentary that is told entirely from the point of view of Basilio, his family, other workers and a local priest. I might have had concerns about using a child to talk about a miner's life as a cheap ploy to get sympathy but it works as a look into a possible future, not only for him but for all of the other miners. Basilio goes to school and wants to become a teacher. He sees the mines as a temporary situation. Let's hope so.[/font]
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