Antonio Méndez Esparza crafts a revealing portrait of life as lived under a regime of race and class oppression.
Matthew Porterfield’s Sollers Point conveys the limitations of freedom within towns like the one at its center.
Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Here and There is as studiously unself-dramatizing as its subject.
It deliberately downplays the anguish of its characters’ resigned lives, and to such an extent that it seems to emanate from a negative void.