The theme of fathers and sons runs through the films of Venezuela-born writer-director Lorenzo Vigas, whose 2015 debut drama “From Afar,” which focuses on a troubled middle-aged man and young hustl…
” , which screened Thursday at the 39th annual Miami Film Festival, this motif continues to resonate — and on a global scale.
“We are always trapped in our obsessions,” Vigas told fest attendees during a Q&A that followed the screening. “I had a very good relationship with my father, a very close and warm and good relationship. But I connected with that archetype of the father figure in Latin America. And that could be the father figure also in Russia right now.
“It’s not just happening in Mexico, but across the whole Latin America — you have so many kids growing up alone, without their father,” Vigas said. “That’s the main theme of the film. But, it’s also about the disappearance of women in the north of Mexico, which is terrible. It’s something like 100,000 women have disappeared, for unknown reasons. Women working for these big factories in Mexico. And I got very interested in that story.
“We made a huge casting [search] in Mexico, trying to find a kid, that special kid,” Vigas said, “and I saw an interview of this kid [Navarrete] talking about his own father and the relationship with his own father, and he has a lot of pain coming from that place in his heart. So I knew that he was going to bring a lot to the film. And it was very hard for him to make the film but at the same time, it opened him up to a new kind of life.
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