In competition for the Ibero-American Award.
film synopsis
Enjoying a luxury vacation on the sun-drenched shores of Acapulco, Neil (Tim Roth) and Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Alice’s two teenagers make the most of the trappings their wealth and privilege can afford, including daily massages, cliff-diving and a suite with an infinity pool. When a family emergency calls them back to London, Neil just happens to “forget” his passport, and stays in Mexico where he settles in at a cheap motel and takes up with shop clerk Berenice (Iazua Larios), with no intention of ever returning home. But as Neil quietly strains the bonds of family and responsibility to their breaking point, his moneyed presence begins attracting the wrong kind of attention, leading to an unexpected turn of events in this powerful new drama from one of the masters of contemporary cinema, writer-director Michel Franco (Chronic PSIFF 2016).