Eimbcke makes the most of his enclosed space and eager cast to string together a series of droll vignettes that eventually add up to a satisfying and touching story.
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04/01/06
Duck Season (2006)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 69 Fresh: 62 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus:
This modest cinematic slice-of-life manages to subtly capture many small but resonant and truthful moments of adolescence.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis: With DUCK SEASON, writer/director Fernando Eimbcke lovingly brings a touching tale to life. Shot in black-and-white and on a minuscule budget, Eimbcke's film is a slice-of-life comedy that takes place over the course of one day in a Mexico City apartment. Flama (Daniel Miranda) and Moko... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Enrique Arreola, Diego Catano, Daniel Miranda, Danny Perea, Carolina Politi
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Screenwriter: Paula Markovitch, Fernando Eimbcke
Producer: Jaime Bernardo Ramos
Composer: Alejandro Rosso
Screenwriter: Paula Markovitch, Fernando Eimbcke
Producer: Jaime Bernardo Ramos
Composer: Alejandro Rosso
Reviews
Top Critic
Further delicious evidence of the reviving fortunes of Latin American cinema.
01/26/06
Top Critic
These characters hilariously circle around each other ... tentatively reaching out to each other with surprising results.
04/05/05
A sweet, charming film about friendship and the pangs of adolescence, enhanced by gorgeous black and white photography and four splendid performances.
04/02/05
Despite its tiny canvas, Duck Season soars with all the profundity and inanity of teenage life; the tenderness, the isolation, and the doomed joy of its innocent irresponsibility.
03/29/05
Top Critic
Duck Season is definitely worth seeing, but mostly it is worth seeing past, into the future of a promising new filmmaker.
09/17/07
A nuanced, authentic portrait of adolescent ennui and maturation that treats pre-teen emotions with a Jim Jarmusch-ian brand of detached sympathy and bemusement.
12/27/06
Lovingly cast, suavely directed and always pitched perfectly, whatever its tone, Duck Season is the kind of small, quiet, thoughtful movie that ought to be as abundant as Sunday afternoons.
11/11/06
Watch it passively and you might wonder how it even qualifies as a movie; watch it with your full attention and you will see a charming and surprisingly meaningful look at adolescent angst.
09/07/06
...for the viewer interested in an amusing, thoughtful, independent, slice-of-life film.
08/31/06
The fullness of Duck Season is in direct proportion to its smallness; its modesty makes it bloom.
05/12/06
Because it's shot in black and white, involves characters doing bland things in a bland setting, and yet is surprisingly entertaining, you could call this Clerks -- The Mexican Home Edition.
04/21/06
Effortlessly nonchalant in its observations of kids and the way the world looks to them.
04/21/06
Runs more on charm than inspiration, but it convincingly conveys something of the terrible, giddy solipsism of adolescence, with its contradictory longings for freedom and security...
04/21/06
Burn off 87 minutes of your sentence in Hell by sitting through writer-director Eimbcke's B&W dreary dreamscape about (his) a boy's gay awakening.
04/18/06
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.
04/13/06
The bemused sympathy we feel is brought about by both young actors doing a fine job with the minimalist material.
04/10/06
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