Our Latin American journey leaves the South American mainland behind this week, and dips into Caribbean cinema with a 2007 film from the Dominican Republic, YUNIOL. After some reviews, we talk about class differences, telling multiple stories, and how this is not an ‘uneven’ film.

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Recommendations
HEROES (2007–09): Tim Kring, Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere
SHARKTOPUS VS. PTERACUDA (2014): Kevin O’Neill, Robert Carradine, Katie Savoy
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BLINDSPOTTING (2018): Carlos López Estrada, Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal

Footnotes
This week’s links:

• [where this film comes from, Part 1] www.barcelo.com/pinandtravel/en/from-the-godfather-to-jurassic-park-the-best-dominican-cinema
• [where this film comes from, Part 2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dominican_Republic_films
• [what this film could have been] www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/15-poetic-films-about-mundane-subjects
• [our episode about the film to which we compared this one] www.kaiju.fm/prestige/5-04-city-of-god-2002-corrupt-space
• [finally: yes this is about the UK, but it’s still a good article!] aaronguthrie.medium.com/the-representation-of-class-in-contemporary-british-film-and-tv-afc5882dd7d3

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