Some Thoughts on Melquiades Estrada

The new film “The Three Buriels of Melquiades Estrada” inspires some personal ruminations by Carolyn Curiel, whose own immigrant Mexican grandfather “was buried twice” in this country. The subtle lament of undervalued immigrant life will feel hauntingly familiar to many children and grandchildren of recent immigrants. A link to her editorial in the NY Times is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/opinion/10fri4.html

The referenced film received a somewhat ambivalent write up in the New Yorker recently:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/060206crci_cinema

I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve seen the movie. Yes, I know that’s old-fashioned.

-jmc