Showing at 08:00PM on Saturday, March 25, 2006
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DUCK SEASON
MEXICO, 2004, 86 MIN, RATED R
DIRECTED BY FERNANDO EIMBCKE
IN SPANISH W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Flama and Moko, two fourteen-year old best friends in Mexico City, are left on a Sunday afternoon to eat junk food and play video games—all the ingredients of male adolescent bliss. Enter Rita, the sexy older (16) girl next door who needs to use the oven to bake a cake, and a hapless pizza delivery man just won’t leave—and then the power goes out. Bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, this multi-award-winning film (Paris Film Festival, Thessalonika Film Festival, and AFI Fest among others) has begged comparison with Stand By Me, Jim Jarmusch, and even Ingmar Bergman. Fernando Eimbcke’s insightful exploration of adolescent themes renders a memorable study of loneliness, divorce, exuberance of youth, but most of all, love and friendship—all in flawlessly framed black and white. See why cinephiles argue relentlessly about this film: is DUCK SEASON (TEMPORADA DE PATOS) genius or is it simply fun?

