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So why did I just found out about this today... when Rush tix are the only option (line forms 1 hr before showtime, tix sold 5 min before showtime - no guarantee of availability) at a time I can go?!??! WTF world?!? Why are you doing this to me!?!?
(*yes, I know it doesn't say that Gael's going to be there. but I believe he is. I'm having a "juju".)
AFI FilmFest
Latin Showcase, World Cinema
Mexico, 2007, 100 min, 35 MM
In Spanish with English subtitles
DIR: Gael Garcia Bernal
SCR: Kyzza Terrazas
PROD: Pablo Cruz, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Luciana Kaplan
DP: Eugenio Polgovsky
ED: Alex Rodríguez
PROD DES: Mily Moreno
CAST: Luz Cipriota, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Camila Sodi, Gael García Bernal, Ana Serradilla
Actor Gael García Bernal’s directing debut is infused with an infectious, youthful energy, voyeuristically following his complex characters at a house party just outside of Mexico City.
Bourgeois, rich kid Cristobal (García Bernal) is having his friends over for a barbecue at his parents’ weekend home. His younger sister (Camila Sodi) and her hippie, pill-popping friends are also staying at the house, and the clash between the two groups of friends, brother and sister, and their childhood friend who works for the family is just the beginning of the story.
Bernal uses subtle undercurrents of tension to seamlessly interlace characters, time and place. Both comic and reflective, DEFICIT is an elegant allegory for current Mexico on the brink of change. Shot in an immediate, improvisational style that emphasizes the class chasms, Bernal elicits layered performances from his young cast, proving himself to be a gifted director as well as a charismatic actor.
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