2022 | Mexico | Fiction

El norte sobre el vacío (Northern Skies Over Empty Space)

  • Spanish English 114 mins
  • Director | Alejandra Márquez Abella
  • Writer | Gabriel Nuncio, Alejandra Márquez Abella
  • Producer | Gabriel Nuncio, Alejandro Duran, Adán Pérez, Alejandra Márquez Abella

STATUS: Released

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When Rosa is expected to hand her boss the suntan lotion on a deer hunt, this feels like a sign. Don Reynaldo’s ranch is about to celebrate its farm anniversary, but this passionate hunter’s image is built on a lie. And so, here in the countryside, where men are men, employees are grateful subjects and women diligently and docilely hold it all together, cracks begin to appear in the social life of this microcosm. Ordered around day in and day out, unnoticed by those in her class-conscious surroundings, the menial Rosa gradually becomes an agent of change. While Don Reynaldo’s extended family contorts itself in a bid to save the old order, men begin to arrive at the farm in pickup trucks. Their appearance at the feast and a threat are enough to make the ageing patriarch fear for his life and his family – and force him to act. All that passes is observed by the animals who, either as trophies on the wall or as livestock out to pasture, seem to sense the end of an old hegemony.

Legacy Violence Patriarchy Identity Land
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