Robie Flores' 'The In Between' is a love letter to la frontera—and a humanizing refutation of GOP fear-mongering.
” teen who just wanted to “get the fuck out” of Eagle Pass to reinvent herself, had dreams of making movies with her brothers, Paco, Alex, and Marcelo. during a family trip in Acapulco, Mexico. He had recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin’s Radio-Television-Film program and was only 23.In the wake of her brother’s death, Flores returned home and reexamined her hometown through new eyes.
Her parents had crossed to the Mexican side of the bridge the day before the twins were born, Flores continued, because the hospitals were better.explores both the magical and the mundane aspects of border life: kayaking on the Rio Grande, Texas football and Friday Night Lights with team chants in Spanish, young girls dancing and dressed up in Selena’s iconic sparkly purple jumpsuit, teenagers dancing at, and coyotes crossing the street.
As the film nears its closing scene, we see intimate familial moments before Mars’ death: the twins’ birthday and old footage of Mars and Alex at a football stadium, donning burnt-orange letterman jackets with “Flores twins” emblazoned on the backs.paints a portrait of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras through the eyes of those who have loved and lost there. It is a love letter to—to the people of these sister cities straddling the U.S.-Mexico divide.
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