Bernalillo Trilogy Movies
Danny Lyon's trilogy of day-in-the-life documentaries tracing the life of Willie J and the community of Bernalillo he inhabits.
Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1971
Original Language:English
Llanito (1971)
StarringWillie Jaramillo
DirectorDanny Lyon
Plot
Llanito is the first of Lyon’s trio of films shot in and around Bernalillo, New Mexico, and it is also the screen debut of Willie Jaramillo. The twelve-year-old boy acts as a guiding force for Lyon and his audience, reading out the names on gravestones and relating the stories of the people buried there. He is the focal point of a group of mostly young men with whom Lyon would remain friends and continue to document for the next several decades. The film meanders through the town and among its inhabitants, passing between groups of people at times with the keen instinct of a desert eagle and at others in a drunken stupor, stumbling from one scene into the next with the visceral and irrational inevitability of a gravitational pull.
