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PERPETUUM MOBILE

By Nicolas PEREDA

CINÉLATINO, RENCONTRES DE TOULOUSE - as DISTR

Drama - Completed 2009

Gabino is a 24-year old man who works as a moving truck driver in Mexico City and still leaves with his mother. Their distant relationship is challenged when they make an unexpected discovery.

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- MEXICO, CANADA, FRANCE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Nicolas PEREDA
- Writer(s)
- Nicolas PEREDA
- Cast
- Francisco BARREIRO, Gabino RODRIGUEZ, Teresa SANCHEZ
- Producer(s)
- Catalina PEREDA (En Chinga Films), Nicolas PEREDA (En Chinga Films)
- Synopsis
- At the beginning of the movie we see Juanita an eighty five year old woman that spends her day cleaning the house while singing. After a couple of hours she suffers from a cardiac arrest and dies. The movie continues with the story of her grandson, Gabino and her daughter, Teresa. Gabino and his mother Teresa don’t have a good relationship, she would like Gabino to be more like his older brother, Miguel whom she idolizes and never comes to visit. However, Teresa always justifies his absence by saying he must be very busy. Gabino is a 24-year old man who still lives with his mother and works as a moving truck driver in Mexico City. He constantly witnesses the perils and distress that others have to endure as they move out of their homes and out of other people's lives. Gabino’s relationship with his mother is challenged when they find his grandmother dead in her apartment.