In Conversation Nicolás Pereda and Robert Koehler
(¿Dónde están sus historias?). Pereda’s remarkable feature debut introduced not only his cast of regulars—including Teresa Sánchez and Gabino Rodríguez as the eternally luckless mother-son duo—but also his vision of cinema, where the relationships among character, place, and time are elemental. Stuck in a farmhouse with his chronically prone grandmother, young Gabino is spurred to action when his visiting uncles take a shine to the family farm. He heads to the city to find his mother—and possibly a lawyer. The divides between city and country, wealthy and poor, mother and son, are part of Pereda’s concerns, but above all Stories is a testament to capturing a sense of place, and a mood of life.
Written by Pereda. Photographed by Alejandro Coronado. With Teresa Sánchez, Gabino Rodríguez, Clarisa Malheiros, Juana Rodríguez. (73 mins, In Spanish with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From FiGa Films)
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