Perpetuum mobile

Perpetuum Mobile, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico 2009, 86', OV in Spanish. DCP.

In the cinema of Nicolas Pereda, the stories, characters and situations are repeated, with slight variations, to constitute a very special, known and recognisable universe. Teresa and Gabino once again play mother and son living in an apartment in Mexico DF. Gabino is 24 and works as a removals man with a broken old truck. Teresa doesn’t pay much attention to her younger son, but adores Miguel, her first child. And the character of the grandmother will once again be fundamental to the story.