Reżyseria:
Diego LunaZdjęcia:
Patrick MurguiaObsada:
Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, José María Yazpik, Karina Gidi, Francisco Franco Alba, Carlos Aragón, Geraldine Galván, Gabino Rodríguez, Lucero Trejo (więcej)Opisy(1)
Nine-year-old Abel (Christopher Ruiz Esparza) has spent the past two years in the psychiatric ward of a local hospital on account of his strange behavioural patterns. Doctors now want to transfer him to Mexico City, but his mother Cecilia (Karina Gidi) decides instead to bring him back to the family house to live with his teenaged sister Selene (Geraldine Alejandra) and five-year-old brother Paul (Gerardo Ruiz Esparza). Strange events follow as Abel begins to assume the role of head of the household, his own good-for-nothing father having disappeared without trace two years previously. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)
(więcej)Recenzje (1)
Luna's excellent debut deals with the unconventional form of the Oedipus complex - the boy Abel occupies the position of the father in a disturbed family, having lost his speech after his father’s departure (and with it his identity). Fearing another shock, the family begins to play this game with him, even when the real father returns. What's fascinating about Abel is the intertwining of comic elements (a boy pretending to be an adult is simply ridiculous) and tragic elements (the real father is so "impotent" that a loving child overcomes him in this role). Luna's film is shot very cleanly and neatly, the camera clears the way for the fascinating performance of Ruíz-Esparza, and the music colors the bleak atmosphere of the poor Mexican periphery. What I miss a little bit is the greater proximity of the narrator and the characters, sometimes as if the theme was dominant and Luna stayed an away a little bit (mainly thanks to the elegant filming). But this is just a small thing - Abel is a clear candidate for recommendation to general audiences.
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