Your parents are falling apart and you're still trying to plan your dance academy? Girl, no.
Marcela is a young woman who lives in Mexico City, where she makes her living teaching ballroom dancing. Everything seems to be fine in her little world: she is hoping to start her own dance academy and has romantic plans. However, one day she finds out that something strange is happening at her parents house: an underground and latent discomfort grows week by week. Gloria, her mother, seems absent, talking about strange events far from her daily routine and experiencing memory lapses. Almost at the same time, Nacho, Marcela's father, loses his job and, with it, his self esteem. Marcela forgets about her own needs choosing instead to concentrate on her parents troubles and reestablishing family harmony.
Acting
Margarita Sanz's Gloria haunts every frame she's barely in
Direction
Villaseñor lets silence do the screaming
Cinematography
Mexico City as suffocating backdrop, not postcard
Director
Juan Pablo Villaseñor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a Mexican idiom about postponed connection, perfectly capturing Marcela's endless deferral of self.
Part of a 2000s wave of intimate Mexican family dramas that rarely crossed north, despite festival play.
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