A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.
Acting
Miguel Iza's trembling commitment to every awkward pause.
Direction
Risco captures Lima's suffocating politeness with painful precision.
Director
Daniel Rodríguez Risco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Lima's middle-class neighborhoods, it satirizes Peru's obsession with 'respectable' employment over artistic pursuit.
Director Daniel Rodríguez Risco's own father was a watercolor painter, lending the film's mockery of the protagonist a complicated autobiographical sting.
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