7 Boxes
Paraguay
2012
105 Min
Color
Spanish, Guarani
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It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in Mercado 4. He is offered the chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for $100. This sounds like an easy job but it soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted. Víctor and his persecutors find themselves caught up in a crime they know nothing about. –TIFF
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TIFF 2012 Review: 7 BOXES Are All Full of Genre Treats!
By Twitchfilm.com on September 8, 2012
It’s a hot day in the capital city of Paraguay and the exchange rate for US Dollars is running as high as the mercury in Asunción’s bustling marketplace. Narrow rows of stalls glutted with people, consumer
Paraguay's 7 BOXES contain a Whole Lotta Kinetic Energy
By Twitchfilm.com on September 2, 2012
When a street barrow-courier in the most chaotic urban marketplace in capital city of Paraguay gets the gig of watching over seven rather large and mysterious crates, things are sure to get out of hand
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7 Boxes (orig. 7 Cajas) [2012] (UR would be R - 4 Stars)
By Dennis Kriz on April 25, 2013
Outstanding, critically acclaimed/award winning film from lowly Paraguay (which previously made only about 20 films in its entire history). It’s about a teen who works as a freelancer with a wheelbarrow… read review
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