Alexandra Cuesta cites eternal wanderer Henri Michaux as one of the inspirations for her first feature. It’s curious, then, that the opening sequence of Territorio (the first film Cuesta shot in her native Ecuador) shows us a boat heading for the shore. It is very likely that, to Cuesta, the image of water hides the same connotation than it does to the author of “The Sea of Breasts”: returning home, being sheltered in the mother’s womb. Without detouring from the formal approaches of her previous work, Cuesta traces a journey that crosses the country from north to south, drawing a human cartography in which the aim is to achieve an impossible balance between the foreign traveler’s gaze and the earnest familiarity of those who return home temporarily.

A Secret in the Box
2017
6.0/10

Labyrinth of Passion
1982
6.1/10

Female Urologists 3
2020
5.2/10

The Road
1982
7.3/10

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
7.8/10

Rambo III
1988
6.2/10

Castaway on the Moon
2009
7.9/10

100 Meters
2016
7.4/10

The Gospel According to St. Matthew
1965
7.4/10

M*A*S*H
1970
7.0/10

Wild Strawberries
1957
8.1/10

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
7.4/10

The Killing Fields
1984
7.5/10

Do Re Mi
1966
7.0/10

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011
8.0/10

Nights of Cabiria
1957
8.0/10

The Dune
2014
5.5/10

8½
1963
8.1/10

No End
1985
7.0/10

Jackie Brown
1997
7.4/10