Temporada de patos

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Temporada de patos
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Directed by Fernando Eimbcke
Written by Fernando Eimbcke
Paula Markovitch
Produced by Jaime Bernardo Ramos
Frida Torresblanco
Starring Daniel Miranda
Diego Cataño
Danny Perea
Enrique Arreola
Carolina Politi
Music by Alejandro Rosso
Liquits
Distributed by Warner Independent Pictures
Release date
  • October 22, 2004 (2004-10-22)
Running time
85 min.
Country Mexico
LanguageSpanish

Temporada de patos (released as Duck Season in the United States) is a 2004 Mexican film. It is the first feature film by writer/director, Fernando Eimbcke, a former MTV Awards videoclip director.

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After being successfully featured in national and international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival it was sold to distributors in six European countries. The movie has been praised in all of these festivals as well as by directors such as Alfonso Cuarón ( Gravity ) and Guillermo del Toro ( Pacific Rim ).

The movie is filmed in black and white and mostly takes place in one location, an old apartment in Tlatelolco.

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Plot

Flama and Moko are two 14-year-old boys who have been friends for a long time. One Sunday afternoon, Flama invites Moko to play videogames while his mother is not home. There they have everything they need to entertain themselves: videogames, pizza delivery, sodas, manga pornography and... no parents. But when the power goes out what seemed like a regular day becomes an adventure.

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