Résumés(1)
Ramona loves her son so much that she is still content to cut his nails and feed him, even though he’s now an adult. When he doesn’t return home to share some tomato soup with his mother, Ramona goes out to look for him – in the hospitals and morgues. And it’s there that she comes across the shady-looking Genaro whose hobby is cutting out crime updates from newspapers. Ramona thinks that he might have something to do with her son’s disappearance – or even his death. Just the way he hangs about their house is highly irregular, although this might be due to a neighbour, who’s hiding something herself. Expiration Date combines psychological drama with escalating scenes full of black humour and captivating visuals. The film is not afraid to take things beyond the aesthetics of ugliness, while at the same time maintaining its distance, which in no way undermines the story. It deftly combines interest in the characters and an eloquent stylisation which reflects the vibrant culture of Latin America, nevertheless it equally manages to comment on the violence which the drug cartels bring to the region. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Damián Alcázar
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
La delgada línea amarilla (2015)
El infierno (2010)
Men with Guns (1997)
Ana Ofelia Murguía
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
Personne ne parlera de nous quand nous serons mortes (1995)
Dune (1984)
Fecha de caducidad (2011)
Eduardo España
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
Fecha de caducidad (2011)
Marta Aura
Meilleurs films :
4 lunes (2014)
Et... ta mère aussi ! (2001)
Personne ne parlera de nous quand nous serons mortes (1995)
Laura de Ita
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
4 lunes (2014)
Como caído del cielo (2019)
Fecha de caducidad (2011)