The Thin Yellow Line (2015) La delgada línea amarilla
The Thin Yellow Line (2015)
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x800 | x264 @ 7027 Kbps | 95 min | 5,13 Gb
Audio: Spanish E-AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps | Subs: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Genre: Drama
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x800 | x264 @ 7027 Kbps | 95 min | 5,13 Gb
Audio: Spanish E-AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps | Subs: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Genre: Drama
Director: Celso R. García
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Silverio Palacios
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight
IMDB - 15 wins
The Thin Yellow Line just played the Palm Springs International FilmFest. Having lived and worked in Mexico many years ago, I was immediately struck by its ring of authenticity. Everything about it reflects workaday life in "blue collar" Mexico. The story centers around a down-on-his-luck working stiff, Toño (Damian Alcaraz), encountering an old acquaintance who hires him to ramrod a crew of misfits (four guys who might have been picked up at some Home Depot parking lot) to paint a centerline on a back-country road in northern Mexico–210 km. in 15 days. The five of them, a beater pickup, an antiquated walk-behind spray painter, a wheelbarrow, and a dog undertake their own little odyssey. The task is simple; new challenges appear daily. Over a couple of weeks, what starts as a band of bothers becomes, slightly twisted, a band of brothers. The language, the horse play, the problems they encounter and their solutions to them are totally, characteristically, the Mexico I once knew. Because work pivots the plot, Thin Yellow Line exalts the working man in a way that few films of this genre do. Billed as a comedy (and occasionally quite funny), it's a minor-key Homeric, authentic slice of life in working class Mexico. An enjoyable film to watch, its awards are well deserved.
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The Thin Yellow Line (2015) La delgada línea amarilla
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