Parts of a Family

2012 | Color | 83 min 2 seg

Gonzalo and Gina Gutierrez live in a world of their own: a huge villa on a 4,000 m2 estate, near Mexico City. Walls with barbed wire keep the outside world far away. It?s their son, filmmaker Diego Gutierrez, who tells their story. Parts of a Family is a portrait of how a relationship between two people after many years can change from great love into a strangling imprisonment. It?s a bittersweet and universal love story.

Country: Países Bajos, México
Direction: Gutierrez; Diego
Script: Gutiérrez; Diego
Production: Jalvingh; Harmen, Macrander; Jb, Gutierrez; Diego, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (Foprocine)
Photography: Gutierrez; Diego
Sound: Dolby Digital;
Music: Ensamble Contínuo; Tembembe
Participation year at FICM: 2012

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