Tótem
Film details
| Film Title | Tótem |
|---|---|
| Suitability |
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| Genre | |
| Length | 95mins |
| Year | 2023 |
| Country | Denmark, France, Mexico |
| Director | Lila Avilés |
| Actors | Naíma Sentíes, Montserrat Marañon, Marisol Gasé, Saori Gurza, Mateo García Elizondo, Teresa Sánchez, Juan Francisco Maldonado, Iazua Larios, Alberto Amador, Lukas Urkijo, Galia Mayer, José Manuel Poncelis, Alioth Gutiérrez, Marisela Villaruel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Showings |
Seven year old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as a release for existence.
Avilés’s exceptional direction keeps sentimentality at bay while still, almost magically, sampling the different flavours of grief that run like currents and crosscurrents between the members of this close-knit, bickering family.
★★★★★
Avilés works in a generous, open-ended style, entrusting her characters to nonprofessional actors and treating their creations as impulsive, occasionally contradictory souls…
★★★★
