Bad Habits

Simón Bross
Mexico
2007

What inspires me most is people… Watching people… Dreaming is also important.

98", 35mm
Color, Spanish

about the film

Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. Secretly she begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter’s chubbiness. She’s willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena’s husband Gustavo – a professor of architecture - cannot cope any more with his wife's bones sticking into him during more intimate moments. For relief, he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.

One family, diverse eating disorders. Their faith, love and vanity are all put to the test at the dining room table.

about the director

Simón Bross, born in 1960 in Mexico City, went to film school in Florence. Director of Garcia Bross & Associates, he is the most recognized and awarded director in the history of Mexico´s and Latin America´s advertising arena. He has co-produced two feature films, Who the Hell is Juliet? (1997) and Second Century (1999) and produced more than twenty short films.

awards

2007 Guadalajara Film Festival: Best Mexican Film
CineVegas Film Festival: Jury Prize
Montreal World Film Festival: Best New Film Nominee
Los Angeles Atino Film Awards: Special Jury Prize
Cannes Film Festival: Critique’s Week
Official Selection: Pusan, Guadalajara, BAFTA, Bangkok World, Bergen, Vancouver, London, Warsaw

screenings

February 16 Saturday, 5:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2

February 23 Saturday, 1:00 PM AFM Budak Caddebostan

February 24 Sunday, 4:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 7

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