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Sundown

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Original title: Sundown
Year: 2021
Running time: 84 min.
Country: Mexico
Director: Michel Franco
Screenwriter: Michel Franco
Cinematography: Yves Cape
Cast: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios, Henry Goodman, Albertine Kotting, Samuel Bottomley, Mónica del Carmen, James Tarpey
Producer: Co-production Mexico-France-Sweden;
Teorema Films, Luxbox, Film I Väst, CommonGround Pictures
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Alice and Neil Bennett are the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin and Alexa until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, surprising tensions rise to the fore.

Awards: 2021: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection

Critics' reviews

"The high-minded director’s most successful film to date, conceptually speaking, 'Sundown' is an intricate, unconventional puzzle"

Peter Debruge: Variety
"Despite the dark tingle of suspense running through the story, its protagonist remains remote (...) Of all the director’s films to date, this might be the most airless"

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"'Sundown' is only a short film, just about making it over 80 minutes, every second of which manages to be simultaneously riveting and banal. Yet its intensity burns like the sun which makes Neil’s skin blister"

Jason Solomons: The Wrap
"One of the pleasures of 'Sundown' is that it is impossible to guess where it is heading — and it heads in some bizarre directions"

Nicholas Barber: IndieWire
"Riveting and banal (...) Franco is scratching away at the surface, making the sort of movie you come away from with questions, wondering if you'd blinked and missed something"

Jason Solomons: The Wrap
"Even as the movie takes a slight turn into surrealism in its final third, the sum is slight and obscure. At least the running time is brief, and the movie has the good sense to cast Tim Roth (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Matt Zoller Seitz: rogerebert.com
"Tim Roth is perfectly cast as Neil. Throughout his acting career, [he] has excelled at portraying opaque characters whose true motivations are hidden (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
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