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Film · 1996 · Mystery
Lone Star
Directed by John Sayles
1996
★ 6.1 editorial score
Sayles moves between past and present without a cut, panning from one decade into another: a Texas border town excavates a forty-year-old murder and finds the whole town's history attached.
“Sayles uses the whodunit plot to merge past and present, and to expose Frontera's social, racial and political hypocrisies. It sounds highfalutin, but Sayles' knack for edgy humor and ardent sexuality grounds the story in humanism. More than 50 characters people this multicultural tale of a town where the shift of power from Mexicans to Anglos is shifting again.”
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