Empty Hours

A delight...working with grace and patience, Mr. Fernandez makes the mundane captivating.
-- Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

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The Empty Hours

Written & directed by Aarón Fernández Lesur (“Used Parts”). On the desolate coast of Veracruz, Mexico, 17-year-old Sebastián takes over running his uncle’s small, cozy rent-by-the-hour motel. There all by himself much of the time, he meets Miranda, a regular customer who comes to the motel to meet a lover who always keeps her waiting. Together with time to kill, Sebastián and Miranda begin to get to know each other, and an ambiguous game of seduction begins between them. Official selection of the 2013 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Not Rated
Genre
Romance, Drama
Runtime
100
Language
Spanish
Director
Aarón Fernández Lesur
Cast
Kristyan Ferrer, Adriana Paz
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Zachary Wigon, Village Voice

At the risk of overextending a writing-workshop maxim, great cinema often proves that the tale is in the telling. The primacy of visuals necessitates that how a story is told weighs more heavily on the film's success than the nature of the story itself. Such is the case with Aaron Fernandez's The ...

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