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Casa Caracol, by Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz was presented at the 15th FICM

Gabriel Andrade Espinosa, Marco Antonio Mejía

The first feature film by the Franco-Mexican director Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz, Casa Caracol (2017) was presented at Cinépolis Morelia Centro as part of the Mexican Film Section in competition of the 15th FICM.

Casa Caracol narrates the story of Sophia who, conflicted by the mysterious death of her husband, decides to take a vacation to find peace in Casa Caracol, a hostel in the town of Xilitla. There, she will spend nights full of celebration and fraternity until one of the members of the group dies.

Jean-Marc Rousseau directed the short films Beyond the Mexique Bay (2008) and Sand (2013). With the first one, he participated in the 6th FICM, in addition to being selected for the 47th International Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival, he was also awarded the Best Mexican Short Film at GIFF (Guanajuato International Film Festival). The second was also part of the FICM programming in 2013.

Rosalba García on the victim character of her role:

"It was really difficult to interpret because I'm not usually a person with that character, and the script speaks of continuously subjecting myself to a great deal of aggression and fatality. I did not take it as a gender issue but as a metaphor for the situation in which we live in, where women receive violence, but also the rest of us. But I do not take that vulnerability from gender. "

Rosalba García, on the meaning of portraying the violence of society:

"As I watched, I asked myself the meaning of portraying something like that. On a personal level and regardless of the motivations of the creators, I think that part of healing these wounds is going to mourn and the first step is to know what you lost and what hurts. That is why to see the pain and to represent violence to which we do not want to be exposed is important to initiate the healing ".

Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz, on his feminine narrative and violence

"Why is a woman the main character? Because in my previous short I started to work with a female character, I feel more comfortable with them, they are my narrative conduit ... It was a coincidence that such a film came at a time with campaigns of harassment allegations."

Ianis Guerrero, on filming a sex scene

"It's been the worst sex scene I've ever had. It was five o'clock in the morning, the river water was frozen, the rocks were digging into Rosalba, we were naked and we had to pretend we were making love."

Casa Caracol will have another show on Sunday, October 22 at 6:15 pm in theater 2 of Cinépolis Las Américas.