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Enrique Arreola,
Enrique Arreola,
Diego Cataņo,
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Fernando Eimbcke,
Fernando Eimbcke
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: Warner Home Video
: Comedies, Foreign, Independent, Coming of Age , Latin America, Mexico
: 91 min.
: Spanish
: English, Spanish, French
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A typical lazy Sunday gives way to an introspective look at what it means to grow up for two 14-year-old boys left alone for the afternoon in director Fernando Eimbcke's gentle coming-of-age comedy. With the parents away and the Xbox all to themselves, best friends Flama (Daniel Miranda) and Moko (Diego Cataņo) plant themselves in front of the television and prepare for a fun afternoon of junk food, soda pop, and video games. As the battle to the death rages on the television, Flama's 16-year-old neighbor Rita (Danny Perea) knocks on the door to ask if she can use Flama's oven to bake a cake. When disaster strikes in the form of a deathmatch-killing power outage, Flama and Moko hang up the video-game controllers and call the local pizza parlor in hopes that the delivery man won't make the 30-minute guarantee and they will get a free pie. With a stopwatch in hand and the clock ticking, hapless delivery driver Ulises (Enrique Arreola) arrives precisely 11 seconds late. As the power flickers back on and the stubborn boys insist that their pizza should be free, Ulises contests their claim before agreeing to battle Moko in a video soccer match that will determine once and for all if the boys will pay for their pizza. Their game foiled by yet another unexpected blackout, the bored teens begin contemplating the strange behavior of adults, and the role that a painting of ducks plays in the bitter divorce of Moko's parents. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| Real Life--Caught as Though for the First Time
by talltale
September 12, 2006 - 7:08 PM PDT
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Very likely Warner Independent's finest hour--and the least seen among a bunch of mostly decent flops and one silly re-tooled hit ("March of the Penguins")--DUCK SEASON is a sweet little wonder of a film. From Mexico, of all places, it's a bare-bones, black and white affair that take place over a weekend of missing parents and kids with too much time on their hands. Electricity fails, a neighbor visits, pizza is delivered, and then midway along the hoariest of group events occurs, and the movie takes off--quietly as ever--into utter, uncompromised delight.
The cast, seemingly untutored, possesses either enormous talent or beginner's luck. What faces, and what moment to moment reality and charm these four possess! The writing, simplicity itself, is packed with scenes that lay bare--in an honest, never-forced fashion--economics, class, psychology and longing.
This modest but enormously assured debut presages what could possibly be a very special career for writer/director Fernando Eimbcke (how do you pronounce that?). One thing's for certain: "Duck Season" will be a difficult movie to surpass when it's time for Ferdie's sophomore effort. Do not, by the way, be dismayed at the film's opening: shot after shot of buildings, architecture, dreary landscape. You will think, "Uh-oh: an 'art' film." Not to worry: it's art. |
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