Chris Weitz is having one of those “mind the baby” days, he explains at the outset of this phone interview. “My wife went off to yoga, and I’ve got Sebastian,” the filmmaker says. Sebastian is three-and-a-half, and “he doesn’t understand about deadlines.”Thrown together, like it or not, for this particular occasion, Weitz pere et fils are a real-life reflection of a bigger picture—A Better Life—which the 41-year-old director just finished and which Summit Entertainment will release on June 24 in essentially the same slot it gave to its Oscar winner, The Hurt Locker, two years ago.
The reason for this prestige positioning is the film’s sleeper potential, which could bloom from strong reviews and word of mouth into hit status. In essence, it is a Mexican update of The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio De Sica’s 1947 neo-realism classic about an estranged father and son united in an effort to find the thief who robbed the father of his livelihood. Back then, it was a bicycle; now, it is a truck which Carlos Galindo (Demián Bichir)—an illegal immigrant—uses to carry his gardening equipment to the manicured and pampered lawns of Los Angeles’ wealthy elite.
Read the FULL inter view over at filmjournal.com
~Robstenfan
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