A stolen watch, a dead grandma, and one very bad day in Mexico City.
Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.
Acting
Roberto Sosa's physically committed descent into panic.
Direction
Athié's unflinching handheld claustrophobia.
Director
Francisco Athié
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s Mexican 'cinema of inequality' that preceded Iñárritu's Amores Perros — raw urban desperation before the international art-house polish.
Damian Alcázar appears in a small role here years before becoming Mexico's most recognizable character actor in films like Herod's Law and El Infierno.
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