Temporada de patos

Temporada de patos

Temporada de patos theatrical poster
Directed by Fernando Eimbcke
Produced by Jaime Bernardo Ramos
Frida Torresblanco
Written by Fernando Eimbcke
Paula Markovitch
Starring Daniel Miranda
Diego Cataño
Danny Perea
Enrique Arreola
Carolina Politi
Music by Alejandro Rosso
Liquits
Distributed by Warner Independent Pictures
Release dates
  • October 22, 2004 (2004-10-22)
Running time
 85 min.
Country Mexico
Language Spanish

Temporada de patos (released as Duck Season in the United States) is a 2004 Mexican film. It is the first feature film by writer/director, Fernando Eimbcke, a former MTV Awards videoclip director.

After being successfully featured in national and international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival it was sold to distributors in six European countries. The movie has been praised in all of these festivals as well as by directors such as Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) and Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim).

The movie is filmed in black and white and mostly takes place in one location, an old apartment in Tlatelolco.

Cast

Plot

Flama (Daniel Miranda) and Moko (Diego Cataño) are two 14-year-olds who have been friends since childhood. One Sunday afternoon, Flama invites Moko to play videogames while his mother is not home. There they have everything they need to survive such as videogames, pizza delivery, sodas, manga pornography and... no parents. But when the power goes out what seemed like a regular day becomes an adventure.

Awards

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