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Title We Are Mari Pepa
Published FiGa Films, 2013
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this "rough-and-tumble, enjoyable yarn about a group of 16-year-old punk-rock wannabes" (Variety) follows Alex, a 16-year-old teenager trying to write a new song, find a job, have his first sexual experience. As the summer continues, Alex realizes that things are going to change forever and that he will have to grow up and learn to say goodbye. "A gently endearing portrait of four amiable Mexican teenagers feeling their way toward adulthood... a knockabout naturalism that feels honest and real. The movie is at its best, however, when talk recedes and everything goes quiet. In the small, wordless interactions of Alex and his ailing grandmother (a wonderfully expressive Petra Iñiguez Robles), we hear the smack of innocence colliding with experience." - New York Times "A sweaty, urgent, beautifully honest bliss out." - Village Voice
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Alejandro Gallardo, Arnold Ramirez, Moisés Galindo, Petra Iñiguez, Rafael Andrade
Event Originally produced by FiGa Films in 2013
Notes In Spanish with English subtitles
Subject Coming of age.
Families.
Foreign films.
Drama.
Comedy.
Motion pictures.
Latin America
Drama
Motion Pictures
plays (performing arts compositions)
drama (literary genre)
Comedy
Coming of age
Drama
Families
Foreign films
Motion pictures
Latin America
Genre/Form Feature films
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Kishi Leopo, Samuel, film director
Gallardo, Alejandro, actor
Ramirez, Arnold, actor
Galindo, Moisés, actor
Iñiguez, Petra, actor
Andrade, Rafael, actor
FiGa Films (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)
Other Titles Somos Mari Pepa