Duck Season (Temporada de patos)
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures
Rated: R
Release Date: 2006-04-14
Cast: Enrique Arreola, Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Danny Perea
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Screenwriter: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Marcovich
WorkNameSort: Duck Season (Temporada de patos)
Our Rating: 3.00
Fresh from the Florida Film Festival comes Fernando Eimbcke’s intentionally comatose, black-and-white capture of Mexico City apartment dwellers left to their own devices by recurring power failures. Fourteen-year-old chums Moko (Diego Cata’a) and Flama (Daniel Miranda) plan a day of intense video gaming fueled by sugary soda intake, only to get cut off in mid-goal. Within a short time, their couch-bound inertia is joined by a pizza deliveryman (who sticks around because they refuse to pay him) and a slightly older girl who wants to use their kitchen to bake a cake. Eimbcke’s main joke is that, the minute the AC winks out, these high-rise castaways can find little to say to each other; yet even in the throes of boredom, they’re becoming the adults they’re going to be. There are several moments of high, unheralded humor – although whenever you find yourself laughing, you have to ask yourself if you aren’t merely grateful that anything is happening at all.
This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2006.