Fauna

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Fauna

2020

1h 10m

Drama

Foreign

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Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father’s only interest in them is sparked by Luisa’s actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime. The latest feature from Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda is a sly, comedic take on how violence in Mexico has infiltrated popular imagination.

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Fauna is an inebriating shot of cultural critique on our obsession with narco-soaps that's as funny as it is absurd and may be increasingly enjoyable with subsequent viewings.

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

Pereda teases with and deconstructs the fictions typically associated with contemporary Mexican culture in a lean 70-minute running time that abounds in droll humor and bold conceptual play.

Jul 29, 2021

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Manuel Betancourt

Variety

Slowly reveals itself as a clever study in performance and identity that mines its cringe comedy to poke fun at contemporary narconovelas and their grip on that country's cultural imagination.

Mar 12, 2021

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Ryan Lattanzio

indieWire

"Fauna" is over as soon as it begins. Its critiques on the cultural obsession with violent content, and how fiction can bleed into reality for the most vulnerable target, are fleeting but deliver in their modest doses.

Rated: B

Sep 28, 2020

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Fernando Brenner

EscribiendoCine

Pereda remarkably handles the mise en scene, involving us in his game and in the performances of this fauna of diverse characters, where everything is playful and seemingly random. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 8/10

Jan 17, 2024

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

Pertinent and brilliant, but just a mere anecdotal occurrence... [Full review in Spanish]

Jun 23, 2022

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Shot in long widescreen takes, this shaggy-dog exercise cloaks its sociopolitical commentary under seemingly casual, aimless absurdism.

Mar 15, 2022

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Synopsis

Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father’s only interest in them is sparked by Luisa’s actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime. The latest feature from Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda is a sly, comedic take on how violence in Mexico has infiltrated popular imagination.

Director: Nicolás Pereda
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 10m