Parque via
A Mexican caretaker faces the challenge of leaving the security of the only home he has known for decades.
Meet Beto; he takes care of a large modern house in Mexico City which the owners are hoping to sell. We watch him undertake his daily tasks within the house's four walls and face the challenges of leaving home. For Beto is agoraphobic and only ventures out when he has no choice. His friend Lupe therefore visits him and the only other person with who he appears to have regular contact is the house's elderly owner, La Señora, for whom he keeps the house and its gardens spick and span. But sooner or later the house will be sold and then Beto will need to consider a life away from the security of the only environment he has known for decades.
Enrique Rivero, assistant director of last year's LFF feature La influencia, expertly captures the confinement and solitude of Beto's secluded life. Based on the true story of Norberto Coria, whose extraordinary central performance offers a perfect complement to Rivero's terse screenplay, Parque vía (deserved winner of the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno Festival) presents an assured, distinctive debut from a director to watch in contemporary Mexican cinema.
Maria Delgado
This film is nominated for The Sutherland Trophy.
| Directed by: | Enrique Rivero |
| Written by: | Enrique Rivero |
| Cast: | Norberto Coria, Nancy Orozco, Tesalia Huerta |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Running time: | 86min |
