Panchito is missing. Nobody knows what happened to him. He disappeared before Nino (Nicolás Díaz) and his family arrived in the village. His shadow hangs over everything. Nino and his sister Natalia (Martina Grimaldi) are told not to go into the forest. Their mother wants them to stay close to the house, the school, the church. But something in Nino is attracted to the wilder places, and he already knows that being part of the community is no guarantee of safety.
The family has moved out to the village, close to where Nino’s father works tearing down trees to build houses, because Nino has suffered a violent homophobic assault. We see this in the film’s opening scenes: the frightened 12-year-old pursued by a mob of other kids, knocked down, punched and kicked repeatedly, then dumped into the back of a truck which is, obscurely, full of toads. The village isn’t exactly.
The family has moved out to the village, close to where Nino’s father works tearing down trees to build houses, because Nino has suffered a violent homophobic assault. We see this in the film’s opening scenes: the frightened 12-year-old pursued by a mob of other kids, knocked down, punched and kicked repeatedly, then dumped into the back of a truck which is, obscurely, full of toads. The village isn’t exactly.
- 5/27/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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