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Thursday, January 27 - Thursday, February 24, 2022

Q&As with director Michel Franco following the Thursday, January 27 7:30pm sneak preview moderated by Julian Schnabel, on Friday, January 28 following the 7pm snow moderated by New York Times critic Nicolas Rapold and on Saturday, January 29 following the 5:10pm show moderated by Cinema Tropical writer Carlos Gutièrrez.

Neil and Alice Bennett (Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore in this suspenseful jolt from writer/director Michel Franco.

“An existential mystery. Impossible to guess where it is heading.” – Indiewire

“Throttles us out of our comfort zones. No two people will see the film the same way.” – Variety

• Running Time 83 minutes
• Distributor Bleecker Street Media
• Director Michel Franco
• Cast Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Henry Goodman, Samuel Bottomley, Monica Del Carmen
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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