Summer of Goliath

Summer of Goliath

2012. Mexico. Directed by Nicolás Pereda. With Clemencia Alejo, Gabriela Alejo. Pereda’s Summer of Goliath combines documentary and fiction as it intertwines the stories of people living in a small town in rural Mexico. Those people include a woman who believes her husband has left her for another; her soldier son, who hopes that one day he and his soldier partner will be issued machine guns so that they may intimidate passing motorists; and three brothers whose father left them, many years prior, in the care of their mother, who can barely support them. In Spanish; English subtitles. 78 min.