El regreso

The opening sequence in the second feature by Costa Rican filmmaker Hernán Jiménez (who also plays the lead role) shows us in detail the chaotic and yet colorful life in that Latin American country´s capital city: traffic jams, excessive noise, pollution, regional fast food, and local music make up the landscape. The film´s viewpoint -lost and yet absorbed by all that visual richness- is provided by Antonio, a young man who is coming back home after a decade of living abroad. His return -which is temporary, due to his father´s illness- is transformed in a head-on collision against underdevelopment, crime, things that no longer exist, friends he doesn´t recognize, and a family in the break of dissolution. But it´s through those same hardships and lessons that Antonio will manage to face the history of his family and his country, and understand this present time, which after all, has lots of good things going on.

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