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    The Best Families

    Directed by Javier Fuentes-León
    Peru/Colombia | 99 minutes | Cine Latino

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    The Best Families

    Directed by Javier Fuentes-León
    Peru/Colombia | 99 minutes | Cine Latino

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    The Best Families

    Directed by Javier Fuentes-León
    Peru/Colombia | 99 minutes | Cine Latino

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    The Best Families

    Directed by Javier Fuentes-León
    Peru/Colombia | 99 minutes | Cine Latino

A big family birthday bash hosted by two gossipy aristocratic sisters erupts into farcical mayhem and open class warfare when ancient betrayals, amorous entanglements and long-buried secrets rise to the surface. Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León's boisterous and barbed social comedy is a party not to be missed.

In competition for the Ibero-American Award.

film synopsis

Sisters Luzmila and Peta are housemaids at the side-by-side mansions of sisters Carmen and Alicia, two gossipy Peruvian aristocrats who have summoned their extended families for a big birthday bash. In writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s boisterous and barbed social comedy, this celebration – unfolding as raucous political demonstrations clog the Lima streets outside their walled estates – devolves into open class warfare as amorous entanglements and long-buried secrets explode the party with hilariously chaotic results. Among the guests are a weed-smoking grandma and a gay son who arrives from Spain with his fiancée and, to the astonishment of his former lover, announces his plans to wed a woman. Fuentes-León (who made the groundbreaking 2009 queer Peruvian drama Undertow) choreographs the mayhem with expert farcical timing, skewering the pretensions and prejudices of his blinkered characters with a beguiling mixture of savagery and affection.

film details

Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Producers: Javier Fuentes-León, Delia García, Michel Ruben
Screenwriter: Javier Fuentes-León
Cinematographers: Mauricio Vidal
Editor: Javier Fuentes-León
Music: Selma Mutal
Cast: Tatiana Astengo, Gabriela Velázquez, Gracia Olayo
Original Language Title: Las Mejores Familias
Country: Peru/Colombia
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles.
Year: 2020
Running Time: 99 minutes
Director Filmography: The Vanished Elephant (2014), Undertow (2009)
Primary Company: Latido Films
Contact Email: marta@latidofilms.com
Website: https://www.latidofilms.com/film/the-best-families/

Film Festival 2022