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Fauna

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Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father’s only interest in them is sparked by Luisa’s actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime. The latest feature from Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda is a sly, comedic take on how violence in Mexico has infiltrated popular imagination.
Fauna

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Critics Consensus

Fauna is an inebriating shot of cultural critique on our obsession with narco-soaps that's as funny as it is absurd and may be increasingly enjoyable with subsequent viewings.

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Beatrice Loayza New York Times 07/29/2021
Pereda teases with and deconstructs the fictions typically associated with contemporary Mexican culture in a lean 70-minute running time that abounds in droll humor and bold conceptual play. Go to Full Review Manuel Betancourt Variety 03/12/2021
Slowly reveals itself as a clever study in performance and identity that mines its cringe comedy to poke fun at contemporary narconovelas and their grip on that country's cultural imagination. Go to Full Review Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire 09/28/2020
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"Fauna" is over as soon as it begins. Its critiques on the cultural obsession with violent content, and how fiction can bleed into reality for the most vulnerable target, are fleeting but deliver in their modest doses. Go to Full Review Erick Estrada Cinegarage 06/23/2022
Pertinent and brilliant, but just a mere anecdotal occurrence... [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills 03/15/2022
Shot in long widescreen takes, this shaggy-dog exercise cloaks its sociopolitical commentary under seemingly casual, aimless absurdism. Go to Full Review Jason Adams The Film Experience 01/14/2022
The film casts a spell, a memorably unconventional one that seems to stand in the mirror and tickle itself Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Nicolás Pereda

Director

Luisa Pardo

Actor

Gabino Rodríguez

Actor

Francisco Barreiro

Actor

Teresa Sánchez

Actor

Mariana Villegas

Actor

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Fauna

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Synopsis Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father’s only interest in them is sparked by Luisa’s actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime. The latest feature from Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda is a sly, comedic take on how violence in Mexico has infiltrated popular imagination.
Director
Nicolás Pereda
Genre
Drama, Foreign
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 10m
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