Duck Season
This film won numerous awards in Mexico and has a 95 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Also, it is presented by Alfonso Cuaron. So, I was really expecting something special. What I got was a charming little film that is basically about nothing.
It is a lazy Sunday morning and Flama and Moko (who are both 14 years old) are left alone in Flama's apartment when his mother goes out for the day. They decide to play a video game but soon tire of that. A short time later Rita (who is 16), a girl who lives in the building, comes by to ask if she could use the oven to bake a cake because her's isn't working. Flama reluctantly lets her use it. After a while Flama and Moko decide to order a pizza. When Ulises (the pizza delivery man) shows up the boys claim that because he took over a half an hour to get there they don't have to pay for the pie. Ulises tries to get them to pay and winds up spending the whole day there as does Rita (who burns one cake, makes another one that is inedible and finally settles for making brownies).
Here is what we find out: Ulises had dreams of doing something else in life but it didn't work out. He worked at a dog pound but after he couldn't take that anymore he decided to deliver pizzas. Flama's parents are going through a divorce and they are constantly arguing about who gets what. While Rita and Mako bake a cake together she gives him his first kiss. However, it seems that Mako is more interested in Flama and is unhappy that Flama and his mother are going to move away in less than a week. Rita is wants to bake a cake because it is her birthday and it seems her family didn't remember. The brownies contain pot so everyone gets high. Somehow the boys find a gun and shoot everything they can find that Flama's parents are fighting over. That is the film in a nutshell.
The film is beautifully shot in black and white and Fernando Eimbkce does a nice job in his directorial debut. I have to say that there were a number of laughs and all of the actors were good. I guess you could say that this is a coming of age film that doesn't really go in any direction. I saw one critic compare this to The Squid and the Whale but Squid is a much better film with a lot more substance. Duck Season isn't a bad film, it just doesn't live up to all the hype.
It is a lazy Sunday morning and Flama and Moko (who are both 14 years old) are left alone in Flama's apartment when his mother goes out for the day. They decide to play a video game but soon tire of that. A short time later Rita (who is 16), a girl who lives in the building, comes by to ask if she could use the oven to bake a cake because her's isn't working. Flama reluctantly lets her use it. After a while Flama and Moko decide to order a pizza. When Ulises (the pizza delivery man) shows up the boys claim that because he took over a half an hour to get there they don't have to pay for the pie. Ulises tries to get them to pay and winds up spending the whole day there as does Rita (who burns one cake, makes another one that is inedible and finally settles for making brownies).
Here is what we find out: Ulises had dreams of doing something else in life but it didn't work out. He worked at a dog pound but after he couldn't take that anymore he decided to deliver pizzas. Flama's parents are going through a divorce and they are constantly arguing about who gets what. While Rita and Mako bake a cake together she gives him his first kiss. However, it seems that Mako is more interested in Flama and is unhappy that Flama and his mother are going to move away in less than a week. Rita is wants to bake a cake because it is her birthday and it seems her family didn't remember. The brownies contain pot so everyone gets high. Somehow the boys find a gun and shoot everything they can find that Flama's parents are fighting over. That is the film in a nutshell.
The film is beautifully shot in black and white and Fernando Eimbkce does a nice job in his directorial debut. I have to say that there were a number of laughs and all of the actors were good. I guess you could say that this is a coming of age film that doesn't really go in any direction. I saw one critic compare this to The Squid and the Whale but Squid is a much better film with a lot more substance. Duck Season isn't a bad film, it just doesn't live up to all the hype.
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