Four directors, four funerals, and one brutal truth: grief looks ridiculous when you're still alive.
An anthology film in which the protagonists go through the harsh experience of surviving in the absence of their loved one. Cecilia returns to her apartment at night, finding herself exhausted and fighting against the overwhelming silence. Alex and Chiara, two brothers who must go shopping for the burial of their deceased father, meet the seller with whom they will engage in a fun dispute to define the modality of the burial, where feelings from the most absurd to the deepest will surface. Víctor arrives at the house of Pedro, his childhood friend, who lives with his daughter after losing his wife. Gabriela, affected by the death of her mother, finds in Víctor someone she can trust, generating a close but bizarre bond. Peter has to witness the last moments of the life of Raúl who suffers from multiple sclerosis. The development of the plot will reveal how it affects him, since after several years of living as a couple, Peter finds himself in a relationship with an expiration date.
Acting
Katia Condos steals every scene as the coffin saleswoman
Writing
Dark humor that actually understands grief, not just mocks it
Direction
Four distinct voices somehow harmonize in melancholy
Director
Sergio Barrio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cu4tro emerged from Peru's 2000s indie boom, when filmmakers rejected telenovela melodrama for raw urban stories.
The four directors shot simultaneously with shared crew—originally planned as shorts, the funeral theme accidentally unified them.
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