Temporada de patos

A lazy Sunday in the suburbs of Mexico City. Fourteen-year-olds Flama and Moko have everything their hearts desire: video games, sodas, pizza, and – most importantly – no parents. But then, the power goes out. The black television screen leaves the boys drifting apathetically on the sofa until chance intervenes.

Director Fernando Eimbcke proves to be an attentive student of Jim Jarmusch. Working with minimal means and a bone-dry sense of humor, he observes how these four characters—bound together by a persistent blackout—slowly gravitate toward one another. What begins as a trivial dispute over a pizza or an ugly painting evolves into honest reflections on the scars of divorce, loneliness, and the blurred lines between friendship and first love.

As film critic Erik Stockman wrote in Humo at the time: “The story is about nothing more than the feelings of a few insecure teenagers, yet it is one of the freshest and most humorous films you will see.” TEMPORADA DE PATOS is an ode to boredom, captured in striking black-and-white, where the smallest moments carry the deepest weight.