Resisting Life

Running time: 105 mins

Evocative and darkly poetic, Ramon Cervantes' Resisting Life examines the darkness that hides under the surface of any family.

Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia?s happy family life is cut short when her husband is killed in a car accident, leaving Aurelia to manage alone with two girls and a third child on the way. Sixteen years later, Aurelia has never recovered from her loss. Oldest daughter, Leonor, has quit her studies to play substitute Mom and keep the household afloat. Beatriz, immersed in her music, lets life slip by like a strange melody. Adolescent Nadia has only one interest in life: to seek new experiences. Aurelia?s decline is almost contagious, and as she starts to lose her sensibility to pain, the family?s relationships become so alienated that they start to disintegrate like the house in which they live.

Carmen Beato gives a tour-de-force performance as Aurelia, while Cervantes? script and direction create an atmospheric ?gothic vibe that also retains some of the tradition of Federico Garcia Lorca's dramas? (Variety). It is a haunting vision from one of Mexico?s most adventurous filmmakers.


Tamee Tanoor

This film has been presented by The Castellano Family


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