This is not the sort of movie you can recommend to friends without some significant reservations. The pacing can be excruciatingly slow. The movie takes place on a single Sunday afternoon and evening. Many questions are raised and few are answered. If you are not particularly interested in the vicissitudes of early adolescence, especially in boys, there may be little in this film to hold your interest. Creatively filmed in black and white, the movie imparts a sense of what it must be like to live on the margins of Mexico City in an anonymous, highrise building in an anonymous, gray neighborhood. When the power goes out the boys and their uninvited guests become increasingly involved with each other, sharing feelings, fantasies and a bit of their past. The boys budding sexuality is delicately and tastefully portrayed. This is one of the strengths of the film. Other issues, such as the effect of divorce on a young teenager, loneliness, and a sense missed opportunities in the one adult character are raised, in varying depth. The pizza deliver guy attempts to impart some of his wisdom to one of the boys. Often the camera moves in very close on the actors. If you would like to look in on two boys, good friends, home alone on a Sunday afternoon, as their routines and expectations are slowly turned upside down by a slightly older girl, a sensitive, alienated Pizza delivery man, and some very special brownies, you will like Duck Season.
Review of Duck Season
