Duck Season

Mexico 2004, 91 minutes, B/W
Dir. Fernando Eimbcke
In Spanish with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Comedy / Youth

Topics: Rites-of-passage.

Feat. Enrique Arreola, Diego Cataño, Danny Miranda, Danny Perea

Aroview: Two videogame-mad teens find their lazy Sunday hijacked by a nosey neighbour and stubborn pizza delivery man in this breezy, flavoursome coming-of-age.

A bonding movie for mothers and their sullen teenage boys, dir. Eimbcke applies stylish, though adequately restrained black and white visuals to the unfolding events, which become more free-associative (and mildly drug induced) as the afternoon rolls on. Think Richard Linklater by way of Jim Jarmusch out of Mexico!

NB: Be sure to watch through until the end of the credits...

NZ International Film Festival 2005