The read
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
Two brothers, Samuel and Rodrigo, live with their mother in a suburban town. One day the mother, who has mental health problems, disappears leaving nothing behind but a note. David Pablos is a young Mexican filmmaker, born in 1982. His first short film, El mundo al atardecer, was made in 2007. La canción de los niños muertos (2008) was his second short film; he presented his first feature-length film Una frontera, todas las fronteras (2010) at the Berlinale Talent Campus before coming to Venice with his second film, La vida despues, for the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Gabriela VidalScreenplay
- David PablosScreenplay
- David PablosDirector
Cast
- María Renée PrudencioSilvia
- Rodrigo AzuelaRodrigo
- Américo HollanderSamuel
- Patricio Hoyo FuertesSamuel Niño
- Alexis Garzón EspinosaRodrigo Niño
- María Leonor RodríguezMujer Funeraria 1
- María Teresa SerraldeMujer Funeraria 2
- Luis RicartJoven Gasolinera
- Carlos CastellanosMesero
- Francisco Javier SánchezMesero 2
- Giovanni Juárez GutiérrezMesero 3
- Melisa Juárez GutiérrezMesero 4
Stills
Themes
childhoodmotherhood