78 minutes of two people failing spectacularly at not becoming their parents.
Every couple is unique. At the same time there are patterns that all of us inherit from our families. We all have choices: repeat that pattern in the family we choose to build or create new one. That is the fight that the characters of About Them embraces. Both are gown up adults who has not been able to move away from their past, but they are trying so hard to build their own pattern, but the past keep reaches them.
Acting
Vanessa Saba and Giovanni Ciccia's brutal, vulnerable sparring.
Direction
Pérez-Garland's tight frame traps you in their suffocating dynamic.
Director
Frank Pérez-Garland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2010s Peruvian cinema exploring upper-middle-class emotional stagnation, rarely exported beyond Latin American festivals.
The 78-minute runtime isn't just efficient—it's deliberate suffocation, denying viewers the relief of a traditional third-act breakup or resolution.
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