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Fauna
Directed by
Nicolás Pereda
2021
70m
Drama
5.8
90%
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A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.
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DocAlliance Films
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Cast of Fauna
Luisa Pardo
Luisa
Gabino Rodríguez
Gabino
Francisco Barreiro
Paco
Teresa Sánchez
Luisa's Mother
José Rodríguez López
Luisa's Father
Mariana Villegas
Fernando Álvarez Rebeil
Fauna Reviews
Film Freak Central
Bill Chambers
Not bad for a movie without an official screenplay credit.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Fauna has some smart things to say about how the drug trade and its attendant stereotypes have changed the Mexican popular imagination.
indieWire
Ryan Lattanzio
"Fauna" is over as soon as it begins. Its critiques on the cultural obsession with violent content, and how fiction can bleed into reality for the most vulnerable target, are fleeting but deliver in their modest doses.
Variety
Manuel Betancourt
Slowly reveals itself as a clever study in performance and identity that mines its cringe comedy to poke fun at contemporary narconovelas and their grip on that country's cultural imagination.
Awards Daily
Zhuo-Ning Su
A most delightful head-scratcher.
Film Inquiry
Soham Gadre
Base competency is perhaps the tragedy of Fauna, and many festival entries like it - they are adequate to the point of being unmemorable.
New York Times
Beatrice Loayza
Pereda teases with and deconstructs the fictions typically associated with contemporary Mexican culture in a lean 70-minute running time that abounds in droll humor and bold conceptual play.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
With its beautiful wide shots of small-town Mexico, Pereda's Fauna cunningly mixes witty comedy with neo-noir suspense for a smart angle on the country's ongoing drug war.
In Review Online
Lawrence Garcia
The pitfalls of mere equivocation remain ... But at its not infrequent best, Fauna offers the thrill of creative evolution.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Shot in long widescreen takes, this shaggy-dog exercise cloaks its sociopolitical commentary under seemingly casual, aimless absurdism.
Floating World
Dustin Chang
Pereda shifts the narrative to concentrate on narrative within the narrative, enacting a pulpy book Gabino was reading. Pereda toys with the stereotypical roles in these scenarios from countless narco shows that dominate and perpetuate Mexican roles...
The Film Experience
Jason Adams
The film casts a spell, a memorably unconventional one that seems to stand in the mirror and tickle itself
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