Cuernavaca

(Cuernavaca)
Alejandro Andrade Pease | Fiction, Drama

2019 | 88 minutes | Mexico

Andy's world changes when his mother has an accident. With no one to care for him, he is taken to Cuernavaca to his distant paternal grandmother.

Disabilities Youth Family Mental Health Health + Aging
Synopsis

Andy's world changes when his mother has an accident. With no one to care for him, he is taken to Cuernavaca to his distant paternal grandmother (Carmen Maura). While his mother struggles between life and death, the boy will face his grandmother's rejection, the seductive and dangerous world of the gardener's son, and the search for his father.

Reviews

"A small boy from Mexico City gets sent to live with his grandmother after his mother is killed in Cuernavaca, a well-observed, unhurried portrait of an isolated prepubescent who clings to the only person who shows him any kindness in the aftermath" — Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter

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Main credits

Andrade Pease, Alejandro (film director)
Andrade Pease, Alejandro (film producer)
Andrade Pease, Alejandro (screenwriter)
Andrade Pease, Armando (film producer)
Maura, Carmen (actor)
Puente, Emilio (actor)
Arizmendi, Moisés (actor)

Other credits

Cinematography, Fernando Reyes Allendes; editing, Ana García, Francisco X. Rivera; music, Andrés Sánchez.


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Festivals

Roma Film Festival; Bucharest International Film Festival; Chicago International Film Festival; Indianapolis International Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Alejandro Andrade Pease

NATIONALITY: Mexico

YEAR: 2019

GENRE: Fiction, Drama

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults

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