Pereda’s debut feature showcases his carefully restrained narrative and visual style with its meticulously understated story of a young man trying to prevent his uncles from selling his elderly grandmother’s farm. With Pereda’s regular actors Teresa Sanchez and Gabino Rodríguez making their first appearance in the mother and son roles they have played in four films to date, Where Are Their Stories? also introduces the theme of family which unites the films, here by revealing subtle, ironic parallels between the boy’s rural home and the relatively luxurious Mexico City home where his mother works as a live-in maid.

Donde estan sus historias AKA Where Are Their Stories.mkv

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Nicolás Pereda – ¿Dónde están sus historias? AKA Where Are Their Stories? (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Three actors in a love triangle grapple with the blurred lines between their roles and real desires, provoking a thoughtful exploration of authenticity and performance.

Lazaro de noche (2024) Nicolas Pereda 1080p.mkv

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Nicolás Pereda – Lázaro de noche AKA Lázaro at Night (2024) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.

	
Fauna.2020.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-ZTR.mkv

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Gabino is a 24-year old man who still lives with his mother and works as a moving truck driver in Mexico City. His mother, Teresa, worships Gabino’s older brother, Miguel, whom never visits them. Gabino and his mother have a distant relationship that comes to a climax when they stumble upon an unexpected discovery.

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https://nitro.download/view/698E92DDF9EE971/Nicolas_Pereda_-_(2009)_Perpetuum_Mobile.mkv

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Subtitles:English,French (optional)

The post Nicolás Pereda – Perpetuum Mobile (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In a run-down Mexican mining town, Luisa brings her boyfriend Paco home to meet her family. They’re both actors, and the visit grows increasingly (and hilariously) awkward as Luisa’s father becomes fascinated by Paco’s minor role in a television phenomenon. Fauna’s exploration of performance deepens as the film reinvents itself halfway through, reconfiguring its characters into a mystery plot set at a nearby hotel. Scenes and characters begin to repeat and revise each other’s earlier incarnations, creating a deadpan mindbender that grows more entrancing with each beguiling detour, and invites a parallel universe of interpretations. (MK)

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Subtitles:English hardcoded

The post Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Julián Hernández eroticizes nude men like no other filmmaker. His camera practically caresses the actors’ bodies, and viewers who appreciate his distinctive style of cinema often share the palpable desire his characters feel. His latest film, “I am Happiness on Earth” is not unlike his earlier film, “Broken Sky,” in that it tells of a love triangle where much of the communication is done without dialogue.

When Emiliano (Hugo Catalán), a filmmaker, is attracted to a dancer, they do a “dance” in which smoldering glances and a game of hide and seek lead to a seduction. But their relationship is teasingly presented by Hernández, who seems more interested in the impact it has on the dancer and on Emiliano’s work. The filmmaker never calls the dancer, who succumbs to having a threesome with two women. Meanwhile, Emiliano’s latest film, which interrupts the narrative at the film’s midpoint, features an explicit threesome involving two men and one woman.

“I am Happiness on Earth” boasts magnificent cinematography and highly sensual scenes as these two hypnotic storylines play out. If Hernández teases out a meaning in these two parallel stories, thing get further complicated when Emiliano hires a male prostitute, Jazen, and their one-night stand becomes something a bit more. Things come to a head when Emiliano faces a confrontation of sorts with his lovers. If some viewers will find the slow burning “I am Happiness” on Earth tedious and/or inscrutable, the film’s beautiful guys may offer some compensation.

The film within a film storyline may be the weakest element in this film, but it is hard not to feel the emotional power of the various characters expressing and experiencing longing, betrayal, and heartbreak. Hernández may have a jaundiced attitude towards love, and an uninhibited view of sex, but his films get under the viewer’s skin.

3.21GB | 2 h 2 min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D74BC943C050EE9/Julian_Hernandez_-_%282014%29_I_Am_Happiness_on_Earth.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/EFD8011D5CE5DBB/Julian_Hernandez_-_%282014%29_I_Am_Happiness_on_Earth.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/73B72B362D88EC0/Julian_Hernandez_-_%282014%29_I_Am_Happiness_on_Earth.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/704A5060AB79D29/Julian_Hernandez_-_%282014%29_I_Am_Happiness_on_Earth.part4.rar

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Julián Hernández – Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo AKA I Am Happiness on Earth (2014) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this documentary within a narrative-and vice versa-a grandiose filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) arrives in the Yucatán to scout locations for his new movie, a production that will involve exposing the last extant celluloid film stock on the eve of the Mayan Apocalypse. Instead, he finds himself waylaid by the formal schizophrenia of the film in which he himself is a character. Simultaneously a tribute to and a critique of The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper’s seminal obliteration of the boundary separating life and cinema), La última película engages with the impending death of celluloid through a veritable cyclone of film and video formats, genres, modes, and methods. Martin and Peranson have created an unclassifiable work that mirrors the contortions and leaps of the medium’s history and present. An Art of the Real 2014 selection. A M’Aidez Films release (C) Lincoln Center

https://nitro.download/view/E2B5141C09DDD15/LaUltimaPelicula.avi

Language(s):English, Spanish
Subtitles:English for spanish parts (hardcoded)

The post Raya Martin & Mark Peranson – La última película (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.