| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Movie Review

La Ciudad (The City). Dir. by David Riker. Zeitgeist Films, 1999. 88 mins. (Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre St., 2^nd Floor, New York, NY 10013)

This wonderful film challenges viewers to enter a world most prefer not to know even exists: that of urban immigrant laborers. La Ciudad (The City) is filmed in an Italian neorealist style and structured around four vignettes of working-class Latinos in New York. It uses nonprofessional actors speaking Spanish (there are English subtitles) to create a documentary feel that dramatically captures one of the central issues of the global age, the uprooted worker, in terms that are haunting, evocative, and even profound. Although set in the present day, La Cuidad illustrates the transhistorical themes of immigrant life better than any film in recent memory. A viewer can almost see Thomas Bell's characters or Jacob Riis's subjects in the contemporary struggles of these workers; the barrios that appear in La Ciudad might well have been Polish, Slav, or Jewish enclaves one hundred years ago. . . .

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