Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
We Are Mari Pepa is a sweaty, urgent, beautifully honest bliss out.
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Mexico · 2013
1h 40m
Director Samuel Kishi
Starring Alejandro Gallardo, Arnold Ramírez, Rafael Andrade Muñoz, Moisés Galindo
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
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Alex is a sixteen-year-old boy living with his grandma. He has various plans for the summer: writing a new song with his rock band, finding a job, and having his first sexual experience. He also becomes aware that his grandma is increasingly dependent on him.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
We Are Mari Pepa is a sweaty, urgent, beautifully honest bliss out.
The film is fitfully amusing but a bit too shapeless, even for a story about slackers.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
Though individual scenes feel authentic, the overall structure’s rather loose and there’s not a single narrative throughline. This has several advantages... But it also somewhat diffuses the film’s focus.
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
The film finally works because of its multitudinous interests in adolescent shell-shock, where paralysis and uncertainty can only be momentarily assuaged through gendered outrage.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
For all its enthusiastic vulgarity and truly terrible punk rock, We Are Mari Pepa is a gently endearing portrait of four amiable Mexican teenagers feeling their way toward adulthood.
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