Year of the Nail

Jonás Cuarón
UK-USA
2007

She has a gringo ass and she talks like a Mexican!

79", 35mm
Color, English – Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles

about the film

Year of the Nail is the strikingly original tale of almost-love between Molly, a 21 year-old New Yorker, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty. In the year of Diego’s ingrown toenail, Molly travels to Mexico, to spend some time learning Spanish, and rents a room in Diego’s house. A close relationship soon develops between the two. Diego, who was previously consumed by desire for his cousin Emilia, redirects his obsession after Molly arrives. She enjoys the attention and sense of respect missing from her relationships with previous boyfriends. The relationship grows, until Molly returns to New York. Diego decides to follow her and win Molly’s heart. For his imaginative debut feature, youthful director Jonas Cuarón spent a year photographing his surroundings, everything from everyday activities to hospital visits and stray cats. He then collected all the images together to create a photo-album-film whose technique is pure poetry. The characters depicted in this film are real, although the story is fictional. The result is a moving tribute to life’s sweet fleeting moments, sweeter because they are inevitably fleeting.

about the director

Jonás Cuarón was born in 1981 in Mexico City. He studied Architecture and English Literature at Vassar College. The two movies he directed are The Shock Doctrine (2007) and Year Of The Nail (2007).

awards

2007 Thessaloniki Film Festival: Best Artistic Achievement Award
Venice Film Festival
San Sebastian Film Festival
Bratislava Film Festival
Guadalajara Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival

screenings

February 16 Saturday, 3:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

February 21 Thursday, 7:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

March 02 Sunday, 11:30 AM AFM CEPA Ankara 4

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