Synopsis
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
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Cast
- Sebastián AguirreTomás
- Tenoch Huerta MejíaSombra
- Leonardo OrtizgrisSantos
- Ilse SalasAna
- Raúl BrionesFuria
- Sophie Alexander-KatzYoung Mother
- Laura AlmelaIsabel
- Camila LoraAurora
- Marcelo TobarFilm Director
- Alfonso CharpenerEpigmenio
Recommandations
- 100
RogerEbert.com
Best debut feature I’ve seen in the last year, best Mexican film in recent memory, and best (black and white) cinematography since Pawel Pawlikowski’s equally stunning but very different “Ida.” - 100
Salon
It’s a gorgeous sound-and-vision journey through a mystical or mythical space that has echoes of the 1960s Paris of Godard and Truffaut and the 1980s New York of Jim Jarmusch. - 91
The Playlist
Gueros is as close as we’ll get to a parody of art house films while being a proud member of them. - 80
The New York Times
The story pops and swerves; the images are by turns comical, banal and ravishing; and the result is a briskly shaken cocktail made of equal parts provocation and comfort. You come away with a buzz that is invigorating and pleasantly familiar. - 80
Village Voice
What makes Güeros fascinating, besides the joyous invention of Ruizpalacios's craft, is how the director emphasizes rather than hides his own authorial engagement. - 75
Slant Magazine
A good story, full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humor. - 75
The A.V. Club
Even if Güeros doesn’t entirely work, it feels worthy: a film made independently and without interference whose reverence for the past thankfully doesn’t result in too much solemnity or seriousness. - 70
The Dissolve
Güeros is a vivid illustration of factionalism’s brute outcome, which has people choosing up sides and tossing bombs at people, while dismissing their victims’ complicated lives and problems.
