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In the Pit
Kino International
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Sofia García López,
José Guadalupe Calzada,
Isabel Dolores Hernández,
Pedro Sánchez Bernal,
Natividad Sánchez Montes ,
Isahín Octaviano Simón,
and
Agustín Zárate Centeno
According to Mexican legend, the devil demands that one soul be offered up for every bridge built, as a guarantee for the structure's durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo's internationally-praised documentary, this age-old adage takes on mammoth proportions. (Kino International)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Juan Carlos Rulfo
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Juan Carlos Rulfo
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 2, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
84 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Mexico |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish (with English subtitles) |
Original title "En el Hoyo"; Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Documentary), 2006 Sundance Film Festival; Best Film, 2006 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

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Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The soft-spoken, impressionistic documentary (with a hypnotic score built from the sounds of construction) climaxes with a six-minute helicopter-cam view of the colossal structure to which these somebodies have been dedicating their sweat, and sometimes their very lives.

80
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
With In the Pit [Rulfo] isn't advancing any totalizing theory, a treatise on transportation or an argument about alienation; he is, rather simply and elegantly, revealing the secret human face of a seemingly inhuman world.

80
Variety
Robert Koehler
Leo Heiblum's pulsating music and Samuel Larson's dense, fascinating sound editing rewardingly compliment Rulfo's electrifying visuals.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Rulfo's simple strategy of sticking close to his subjects and allowing them to wax philosophical about their lives and labors pays off.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Rulfo adds punch to his material with speeded-up visuals and an eye-popping, six-minute helicopter shot of the entire 10-mile project - which alone is worth the price of admission.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Life on the freeway is hell, but what comes next for these workers might be worse.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's an interesting, if dissatisfying rumination on the working people of industry -- how they labor, how they rest, what they think and feel.

50
Washington Post
Philip Kennicott
What Rulfo needs, unfortunately, is what too many trendy directors forsake: some social context, some succinct voice-overs and some talking heads to put the serious issues (urban poverty, urban stress, environmental degradation, corruption) into perspective.

40
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
Captures the building of the freeway as well as the lives of the people working on it. The problem is, the lives of the people aren't all that interesting and the freeway being built isn't either.

40
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
In the Pit's empathy feels strictly skin-deep, its insight even shallower.

30
Los Angeles Times
Alex Chun
Equally as perplexing as its lack of perspective is the film's overall shortage of information.


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