Reefa Review: A Trite Retelling of a Real-Life Miami Tragedy Reefa Review: A Trite Retelling of a Real-Life Miami Tragedy
An immigrant graffiti artist paints big and dreams bigger in a true story that means well but won t let reality intrude on movie convention.
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Director: Jessica Kavan Dornbusch
With: Tyler Dean Flores, Clara McGregor, José Zúñiga, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Cinthya Carmona, Ricardo Chavira, George Sear, Ezana Alem, Karlos Sanchez.
Running time: Running time: 96 MIN.
Courtesy of Gato Suaya
It’s the summer of 2013 and spray cans rattle as Reefa (Tyler Dean Flores), an ambitious, 18-year-old graffiti artist, paints his signature symbol an eye surrounded by flower petals illegally on a wall in his suburban Miami neighborhood. Later his father (José Zúñiga) a Colombian immigrant nervously awaiting the arrival of the family’s green cards, discovers it, and forces Reefa to whitewash over it befor