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Here and There (2012)
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Here and There (2012)
Original name: Aquí y allá
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the US, he hopes to now finally make a better life with his family, and even to pursue his dreams on the side by starting a band: Copa Kings. He cherishes the everyday moments with his family. The villagers think this year's crop will be bountiful. There is also good work in a growing city an hour away. But the locals are wise to a life of insecurity, and their thoughts are often of family members or opportunities far away, north of the border. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. That place somehow always feels very present, practically knocking at the door. "Aquí y Allá" is a story about hope, and the memories and loss of what we leave behind.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological
Plot: family relations, parents and children, society, hopes, immigrant, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside, exile, migrant, misfit, school, father daughter relationship, emigrant, emigration, sister sister relationship, rural setting, synthesizer, return home, immigrants
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico, latin america

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Duration: 122 min.
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