"Valley of Tears" begins in 1979 with a farm strike in South Texas. When pistols were flourished and strike leaders arrested, migrant worker Juanita Valdez recalls: "We realized for the first time Mexican-Americans had rights, that we were the majority....that we were Americans." It took over 20 years to document this dream come true.... (Full plot summary below)
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"Valley of Tears" begins in 1979 with a farm strike in South Texas. When pistols were flourished and strike leaders arrested, migrant worker Juanita Valdez recalls: "We realized for the first time Mexican-Americans had rights, that we were the majority....that we were Americans." It took over 20 years to document this dream come true.
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| The New York TimesDave KehrDense, contradictory and distressingly honest, Valley of Tears is that rarity among political documentaries: a genuinely thought-provoking film. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe town's entrenched racism is impossible to ignore, but the efforts toward change make a compelling history. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe movie peaks about halfway through, when town officials try to stop Perry from revealing what's going on. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxPerry's careful juxtaposition of images showing the town's sad present with footage of what it's long ceased to be is positively haunting. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAn ultimately moving effort that well illustrates the often hopeless situation faced by the people whose lives it depicts. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerFascinating assemblage combines strike footage first shot in 1979 by Perry when he was working for the Texas Farm Workers Union with film and video lensed over the ensuing 20-plus years. |
| The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonNot everything Perry's voices say seems relevant to his central thesis, but they speak fervently and colorfully, and their intensity is compelling even when their message is lacking. |
| Village VoiceJoshua LandMost of the best moments in Hart Perry's latest documentary can be found in its opening half-hour, a vivid record of a 1979 strike by Mexican American migrant farmworkers in the onion fields of Raymondville, Texas. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittThe movie leaves us with a lot of questions, but its rawness draws attention to the cataclysmic social shift the workers are trying to achieve and the long odds against them. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)The movie leaves us with a lot of questions, but its rawness draws attention to the cataclysmic social shift the workers are trying to achieve and the long odds against them. |
