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TWO EMBRACES
DOS ABRAZOS
Winner Best Director Guadalajara Film Festival.
Jury Prize and Special Jury Prize Trieste Festival of
Latin-American Cinema.
Winner Best New Narrative Filmmaker - Tribeca
Film Festival.
This auspicious, multi-awardwinning
debut from Enrique
Begne is a poignant tale of lonely
people in search of affection in
today's Mexico City.
Thirteen-year-old Paco
(Giovanni Florido) comes from
a broken home. As a distraction
from his troubles, he romanticizes
about a fiery supermarket cashier
Silvina (Maya Zapata). And in
an unexpected turn of events,
forges a deep friendship with
her. Meanwhile, Joaquin (Jorge
Zarate), a solitary and embittered
taxi driver, is forced to care
for a male passenger who has
passed out. When he meets the
daughter (Ximena Sarinana) the
man abandoned long ago, he
decides to stay with her and help
her find the man's friends.
Set in a suffocating metropolis
and supported by a haunting and
urbane score, this meditation on
the plight of the modern man is
both inventive and immediate.
Begne establishes himself as
a bright new talent, weaving
together these two characters'
disparate stories with a similar
theme—finding a glimmer of
hope in friends and strangers
alike.
Mexico, Drama, 96 minutes. 2007. (18+)
Director: Enrique Begne
With: Giovanni Florido, Maya Zapata, Jorge Zarate,
Ximena Sariñana
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