Wide, exceptional film weaves multiple character stories into one against a backdrop of cultural-historical insights into Spanish-Mexican-Black Southern Texas (del Rio, right on the Mexican border) - you could leave the story behind and it would still be fascinating... almost.
Like Angelopolous, Sayles likes to bring his flashbacks into play in the same shot as the present day scene.
Features Chris Cooper investigating his sheriff father before him (a young Matthew McConaughey) and involvement with evil cop Kris Kiristofferson; and catching up with old flame Elizabeth Peña. With Clifton James, Miriam Colon, Ron Canada, Gabriel Casseus etc.
Shot by Stuart Dryburgh.
I didn't know that Texas is the 'lone star' state because it was originally independent (as the film tells us) and therefore an American needs no explanation of the title that we might (though it's symobolically the sherrif's badge which is discovered at the scene).
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