2014 · drama · comedy · mexican
Güeros
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios1h 51m2014
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Our read: Güeros (2014) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · comedy · mexican entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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