Toronto International Film Festival 2024, New York Film Festival 2024
Continuing his longstanding and evolving collaboration with the Mexican theatre collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, the film follows a trio of forty-something friends in Mexico City enmeshed in a tepid yet tender love triangle. As Lázaro, Luisa, and Francisco undertake auditions for a coveted role in the same film, the project director’s unorthodox casting methods lead the friends and lovers to question their aspirations and the roles they inhabit in their daily lives.
Nicolás Pereda was born in Mexico City and holds an MFA in film from York University in Toronto. His films include the features Perpetuum Mobile (09), Summer of Goliath (10), Greatest Hits (12), Killing Strangers (13), The Absent (14), Minotaur (15), My Skin, Luminous (19), and Fauna (20).
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