Before a Rooster Crows
(Antes que cante el gallo)
Arí Maniel Cruz | Drama, Fiction
2016 | 98 minutes | Puerto Rico
Carmín is a teenager who lives in Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her tough and conservative grandmother, dreaming to moving to the city with a mother whose planed do not include her.
Synopsis
Carmín is a teenager who lives in Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her tough and conservative grandmother. Carmín dreams of moving to the city, San Juan, with her mother but she just got remarried and is leaving for the US without her. Then, the arrival of her father after long years in prison eases Carmín’s profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities. Now the girl must learn to live between abandonment and carefulness; amidst desire and love to experience the deepest absence.
Reviews
"Ari Maniel Cruz's distinctive treatment, fusing strong, earthy performances, particularly from the young lead, intense atmospherics, and a frankly bizarre background, add up to a quietly evocative whole shot through with the hard-to-achieve air of directly recorded experience." — Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter
"An example of self-confident Puerto Rican cinema." — Peter Jordens, Repeating Islands
Citation
Main credits
Maniel Cruz, Arí (film director)
Maniel Cruz, Arí (film producer)
González, Cordelia (actor)
Eugenio Hernández, José (actor)
Tikina Burgos, Kisha (actor)
Purcell, Miranda (actor)
Robles Reyes, Tristana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Santiago Benet Mari; editor, Andrei Nemcik; music, Eduardo Cabra.
Citation
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Pragda subjects
Caribbean Studies
Criminal Justice
Culture + Identity
Economics + Social Class Issues
Family
Migration Studies
Women
Youth
Keywords
Clips
Festivals
Rotterdam International Film Festival - Bright Future Award
Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam - Yellow Robin Award
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival - Best Film
Bogotá International Film Festival - UNESCO Award
Guadeloupe International Film Festival - Best Film
Marseille Latin American Film Festival - Best Actor
DIRECTOR: Arí Maniel Cruz
NATIONALITY: Puerto Rico
YEAR: 2016
GENRE: Drama, Fiction
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adults
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
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