Unpredictable, gripping, and ultimately haunting, Leap Year uses a couple's fraught emotional journey as the narrative fuel for a probing look at societal mores and human needs. Read critic reviews
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Journalist Laura (Monica del Carmen) works at home, isolating herself from others. While she lies to her mother and brother, Raul (Marco Zapata), on the phone about having an active social life, Laura's days consist of gazing at her neighbors, eating canned food and going to clubs to bring home strangers. As the anniversary of her father's death draws near, Laura develops a relationship with Arturo (Gustavo Sánchez Parra), a charismatic actor who shares her taste for rough sex.
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: Spanish
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Director: Michael Rowe
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Producer: Edher Campos, Luis Salinas
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Writer: Michael Rowe, Lucia Carreras
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Box Office (Gross USA): $12.2K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Strand Releasing
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Production Co: Machete Productions, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
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A deeply disturbing film, of a woman who allows an abusive man to brutalize her for reasons that only become clear to the viewer as the story unfolds. Laura (Monica del Carmen) works as a freelance journalist. Although not blessed with a svelte body or wildly beautiful good looks, she does alright in getting men to come back to her apartment. One of those trysts, with Arturo (Gustavo Sanchez Parro), becomes a twisted, macabre dance. Laura is a woman who carries a lot of pain, and the reasons for her self-degradation are not readily apparent. One only knows it is somehow tied to Leap Day, which she has marked on her calendar. This is not an easy film that could be called light entertainment. It is dark, and delves into some truly disturbing images that one is reluctant at times to watch. It asks the viewer to plumb the depths of one's soul to try to understand the motives at play. The film is relentless in drawing one into the twisted world these two inhabit. What little bit of hope to be found in this comes at the very end, if one can stay with it.
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A stark, haunting character study about a young provencal women named Laura, played by Monica del Carmen in a beautiful observed performance, she is tragically believable and surely delivers one of the finest female turns of this year. This disturbing drama explores loneliness and consensual sexual violence, Laura has moved far away from her family for the excitement of life in Mexico City, but in reality she is desperately lonely and alienated with her life, she tells lies to her mother and family over the phone of non-existent friendships, she spends all day in her small empty apartment crossing off dates on her calender, and at night she masturbates while sneaking a look at a young couple in the opposite apartment, she is jealous and envies of their passion for each other, later in the evening she goes out to picks up a variety of low-life strangers at bars to bring home and have casual sex with, so she won't have to sleep alone, her longing for love and self worth are not helped by the strangers she picks up, but her crippling isolation and emptiness is about to end, when she meets an ideal companion named Artuo, played solidly by Gustavo Sanchez Parra who has a penchant for sexual sadism that meshes with Laura's masochistic misery. They embark on a deeply intense sexual relationship, the sex turns into extreme sexual violence, and the acts become more humiliating and brutal, Laura throws herself completely into it, and pushes her capacity for pain, it seems that she has a hidden agenda, she is using Arturo for a darker purpose. A impressive and confident debut from writer/director Michael Rowe that won this year's Camera d 'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. ( In Spanish with subtitles) Note: this is a very tough movie to watch, and it is very sexually explict, so if that make you feel uncomfortable you should avoid it. Recommened.
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Wrenching drama about a lonely young woman who fills the voids of her life with made up friends and anonymous sexual encounters. She finds a strange connection with one such man, and embarks on a journey of increasingly degrading sadomasochistic encounters that leads them both down a dangerous road with surprising results. Often hard to watch, but this psychological thriller is hard to turn away from.
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i believe its monica del carmen who is the woman starring in this, and its a brave role for her, and a interesting film overall, set inside her apartment, set in mexico, we see her spending away her days whilst bringing men back there, a ocasional visit from her brother helps her along, and all the while counting down to feb 29 which of course is a leap year, on her calender. the film is a interesting study of a woman, some explicit scenbes of sex and nudity, and a pretty honest film overall
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