• Sundown

    Directed by Michel Franco
    Mexico/France/Sweden | 83 minutes | Cine Latino

Staying behind in Acapulco as his family tends to an emergency in London, wealthy scion Neil Bennett (Tim Roth) quietly begins another life, struggling not to buckle under the pressure of expectation while harboring a devastating secret.

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).

film details

Director: Michel Franco
Producers: Michel Franco, Cristina Velasco L., Eréndira Núñez Larios
Screenwriter: Michel Franco
Cinematographers: Yves Cape
Editor: Oscar Figueroa Jara, Michel Franco
Cast: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios, Henry Goodman
Country: Mexico/France/Sweden
Language: In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
Year: 2021
Running Time: 83 minutes
Director Filmography: New Order (2020), April’s Daughter (2017), Chronic (2015), After Lucia (2012)
Awards: Silver Star - Feature Narrative Competition, El Gouna Film Festival
Primary Company: Bleecker Street

Film Festival 2022