Judging by the lovely "Au gust Evening," writer/ director/editor Chris Eska's first feature, his name is worth remembering.
Eska uses a minimum of dialogue and a maximum of ambiance to tell the tender story - set in southwest Texas - of an undocumented Mexican farmworker and his widowed
daughter-in-law as they face life after the elderly man's wife dies unexpectedly.
Pedro Castaneda, a nonprofessional appearing in his first film, and Veronica Loren tug at your heartstrings with their portrayals of the lead characters.
Yasu Tanida's lensing is worthy of...
Eska uses a minimum of dialogue and a maximum of ambiance to tell the tender story - set in southwest Texas - of an undocumented Mexican farmworker and his widowed
daughter-in-law as they face life after the elderly man's wife dies unexpectedly.
Pedro Castaneda, a nonprofessional appearing in his first film, and Veronica Loren tug at your heartstrings with their portrayals of the lead characters.
Yasu Tanida's lensing is worthy of...
- 9/5/2008
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Inspired by Yasujiro Ozu right down to its seasonal title, Chris Eska's first feature, August Evening, concerns the relationship between a middle-aged Mexican migrant and his widowed daughter-in-law. Although its plot has its share of melodramatic twists and tearful revelations, Autumn Evening focuses on the moments between, the mundane interactions that make up a life. Lumpish, slow-moving Pedro Castaneda looks as if life has worn him down to the nub. In short order, he loses his wife, his job, and his home, and he and his late son's wife, Veronica Loren, are cast out into the world. He has two living children, but they're too busy with their own lives to have time for him. His son, who's also out of work, has enough trouble putting food on his family's table without having to care for his father, whose grey hair and potbelly makes it hard for him...
- 9/4/2008
- by Sam Adams
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
This week's trip to the multiplex offers a jaunt around the globe where, amongst other things, there's a case of mistaken ethnicity in Boston, Nic Cage gets another wig fitted in Thailand, there's whimsy and surrealism in Scotland and Matthew McConaughey is right at home in Malibu, where he might finally have found something he does well, maybe.
"August Evening"
Strained emotional bonds and the transitory nature of the life of an illegal immigrant provide the backdrop for Chris Eska's quietly affecting family drama that stars Pedro Castaneda as an aging farmhand who loses his job at a chicken farm in a sleepy Texas town, forcing he and his devoted daughter-in-law (Veronica Loren) to relocate to San Antonio to stay with his older children and the grandchildren he never knew he had. As Alison Willmore pointed out in last week's Lunchbox, Castaneda is a first-time actor...
This week's trip to the multiplex offers a jaunt around the globe where, amongst other things, there's a case of mistaken ethnicity in Boston, Nic Cage gets another wig fitted in Thailand, there's whimsy and surrealism in Scotland and Matthew McConaughey is right at home in Malibu, where he might finally have found something he does well, maybe.
"August Evening"
Strained emotional bonds and the transitory nature of the life of an illegal immigrant provide the backdrop for Chris Eska's quietly affecting family drama that stars Pedro Castaneda as an aging farmhand who loses his job at a chicken farm in a sleepy Texas town, forcing he and his devoted daughter-in-law (Veronica Loren) to relocate to San Antonio to stay with his older children and the grandchildren he never knew he had. As Alison Willmore pointed out in last week's Lunchbox, Castaneda is a first-time actor...
- 9/1/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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