Reviews
Flies: a lonely retiree and 9-year-old boy find kinship in this charmingly downbeat comedy
Fernando Eimbcke’s sharp eye for composition captures the restless present tense of childhood in a bittersweet film about a young boy in Mexico City trying to make sense of his mother’s illness.
By Nicolas Rapold
Flies: a lonely retiree and 9-year-old boy find kinship in this charmingly downbeat comedy