‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Captures the Soul of a Community By Finding a New Reality

Stop the Pounding Heart is not a documentary. It’s also not not a documentary. It is, as it turns out, something entirely different.

Roberto Minervini went to Texas to make this film, the third in a trilogy set in the Lone Star State. His focus is on a devout Christian family and their daughter, Sara. At 14 she is the eldest of twelve children, all of wh…