REVIEW: 'A Thousand and One’ follows an ex-con mom and her young son — and maps a decade of racial and social inequity — while never losing sight of the big picture.
will follow this duo for a little over a decade, mapping out their journey through bad times and slightly better times. They get their own apartment. Inez’s old flame, an ex-con named Lucky , re-enters the picture and moves in with them. He radiates machismo and thus, seems like trouble for Terry; we eventually see him turn into a tender father figure and a flawed but compassionate role model for the kid. The years go by.
There’s a third-act curveball on the horizon, which Rockwell throws like a pro yet still leaves viewers on one side or the other in terms of acceptance — you either buy it or you don’t. What’s never in doubt, however, is that this first-time feature filmmaker knows how to involve you deeply in where life takes these two and invoke the bigger world that affects them in direct and indirect ways.
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