Cuernavaca
(Cuernavaca)
Alejandro Andrade Pease | Fiction, Drama
2019 | 88 minutes | Mexico
Andy's world changes when his mother has an accident. With no one to care for him, he is taken to Cuernavaca to his distant paternal grandmother.
Synopsis
Andy's world changes when his mother has an accident. With no one to care for him, he is taken to Cuernavaca to his distant paternal grandmother (Carmen Maura). While his mother struggles between life and death, the boy will face his grandmother's rejection, the seductive and dangerous world of the gardener's son, and the search for his father.
Reviews
"A small boy from Mexico City gets sent to live with his grandmother after his mother is killed in Cuernavaca, a well-observed, unhurried portrait of an isolated prepubescent who clings to the only person who shows him any kindness in the aftermath" — Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter
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Main credits
Andrade Pease, Alejandro (film director)
Andrade Pease, Alejandro (film producer)
Andrade Pease, Alejandro (screenwriter)
Andrade Pease, Armando (film producer)
Maura, Carmen (actor)
Puente, Emilio (actor)
Arizmendi, Moisés (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Fernando Reyes Allendes; editing, Ana García, Francisco X. Rivera; music, Andrés Sánchez.
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Festivals
Roma Film Festival; Bucharest International Film Festival; Chicago International Film Festival; Indianapolis International Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Alejandro Andrade Pease
NATIONALITY: Mexico
YEAR: 2019
GENRE: Fiction, Drama
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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