Hasta El Sol Tiene Manchas
Project information
| Talent |
Marcelo Quesada |
| Role of participant |
Associate producer |
| Director |
Julio Hernández Cordón |
| Status |
finished |
Production details
| Running time |
62 min |
| Genre |
Experimental |
| Year of production |
2012 |
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Country of Production |
Guatemala |
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Production Company |
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Synopsis
Shot in a studio with 2D sets, the colour yellow reigning supreme, the use of masks, the schematisation of characters and situations and a direct political message (a sequence of archive footage opens the film.).
Among the little tribe that gaily play out this fable, two characters stand out. Pepe Moco, a mentally handicapped boy, who makes an advert for one of the presidential candidates who promises to organise the first World Cup in Guatemala. Beto is a kid who scales a town drawn in chalk, venting his spleen on its walls, threatening passersby with balls. The two of them soon become very close evoking the past and present of a country that does harm. However, once again, this minimal script serves as an alibi an excuse for making a work that mixes, as did Brecht, different registers, all blissfully ‘distanced’: a poem with melancholic accents, declarations on the cinema, the possibility of making a film amongst friends
