Wednesday March 22, 7:00pm The Varsity
"We four are like The Beatles." "They were all men!" "John Lennon was a woman."
How much mischief can two bored fourteen-year-olds get into on a Sunday afternoon? In Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season, Moko spends the day at the apartment his best friend Flama, minus adult supervision. Together they busy themselves with the activities of average middle-class teenagers, playing video games, eating junk food, wreaking a little havoc and causing a little property damage. The cute (and slightly older) neighbor girl Rita comes over to "borrow" the oven. This results in one burnt cake, one that is inedible and hilarious sexual jousting with younger Moko. The boys stiff the pizza delivery guy who refuses to leave without payment but really wants any excuse to escape his dead-end job. Filmed in a cinematic style that makes effective use of wide-angle photography in confined spaces, this is a film that cleverly creates something from nothing. Duck Season is sweet and warmly amusing without a hint of pretense.
"We four are like The Beatles." "They were all men!" "John Lennon was a woman."
How much mischief can two bored fourteen-year-olds get into on a Sunday afternoon? In Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season, Moko spends the day at the apartment his best friend Flama, minus adult supervision. Together they busy themselves with the activities of average middle-class teenagers, playing video games, eating junk food, wreaking a little havoc and causing a little property damage. The cute (and slightly older) neighbor girl Rita comes over to "borrow" the oven. This results in one burnt cake, one that is inedible and hilarious sexual jousting with younger Moko. The boys stiff the pizza delivery guy who refuses to leave without payment but really wants any excuse to escape his dead-end job. Filmed in a cinematic style that makes effective use of wide-angle photography in confined spaces, this is a film that cleverly creates something from nothing. Duck Season is sweet and warmly amusing without a hint of pretense.