Carlie Guevara in The Garden Left Behind
In a cinema landscape full of simple stories about characters who don’t have much going on in their lives until the plot grabs them, Flavio Alves’ The Garden Left Behind is something of a curiosity. Recently screened at Outfest in Los Angeles, it charts the story of Tina (Carlie Guevera), a young, undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York, who works as a taxi driver, supports her homesick grandmother and is considering going through the medical process that could enable her to feel more at ease with her body as a trans woman. It’s a slice of New York life, complicated and real, focused on people who often go unseen. It emerged from a long process of collaboration and was, perhaps, coloured by Alves’ own experiences as an immigrant. I ask him about that when we connect to talk about it.
In a cinema landscape full of simple stories about characters who don’t have much going on in their lives until the plot grabs them, Flavio Alves’ The Garden Left Behind is something of a curiosity. Recently screened at Outfest in Los Angeles, it charts the story of Tina (Carlie Guevera), a young, undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York, who works as a taxi driver, supports her homesick grandmother and is considering going through the medical process that could enable her to feel more at ease with her body as a trans woman. It’s a slice of New York life, complicated and real, focused on people who often go unseen. It emerged from a long process of collaboration and was, perhaps, coloured by Alves’ own experiences as an immigrant. I ask him about that when we connect to talk about it.
- 8/12/2019
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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