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A Day in the Life

1993 · 45 min

A sober, unsentimental portrait of poverty and migration that feels like a document of hardship, quietly bitter and hard to shake.

Directed by
Ángel F. Rivera
Genres
Drama
Overview
This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the reason, it's likely that the movie's bitter tone and deviation from the dominant, uplifting DivEdCo narrative were the main reasons. Notable for its portrayal of "El Fanguito," a San Juan urban slum, and of country-city emigration at the dawn of Operation Bootstrap.

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Directed by
Ángel F. Rivera
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • survival
  • isolation
  • family
  • politics
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Ángel F. Rivera
Written by
Pedro Juan Soto
Runtime
45 min
Country
Puerto Rico
Languages
Spanish

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