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Capsule review: ‘Intimidad’
In terms of craftsmanship, “Intimidad” is just a step or two above a home movie: a mishmash of camcorder footage and scratchy, washed-out 16 mm film that doesn’t fit together smoothly. But that’s not inappropriate considering the subject, a young Mexican family accustomed to life in a plywood shack with a metal roof and open holes for windows. The movie’s intense focus on this 21-year-old couple more than compensates for its technical roughness, injecting much-needed humanity into the dry labor statistics of trade and immigration debates. We meet the pair in Reynosa, where they’ve moved far from their newborn daughter in hopes of scraping together enough to buy a piece of land. Loneliness and wages that (despite working overtime) leave about $15 each month for savings test their commitment, and we watch over a couple of harrowing years as they try to reconcile hope and love with tough realities.
10:15 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Austin Convention Center
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