Film Screening
El Vecino
Directed by Giancarlo Ruiz.
Monday, June 19, 2017
9:45 PM - 11:45 PM
ArcLight Culver City 4
9500 Culver Blvd.,
Culver City , CA 90232
Starring: Paco Mufote, Isabel Orizaga, Sergio Valdez, Joseph J. Stephen
Suffering from psychological disorders, Raul spends his days obsessing over his downstairs neighbors, a couple with day-to-day marital problems that seem banal when compared to Raul’s isolation. Monitoring their every movement, he craves the companionship they seem to flaunt, and when he finds the wife home alone, he makes his move. After dragging her upstairs, his absurd and invasive attentions terrorize both man and wife.
Fear is a sweaty, messy endeavor in this feature directorial debut by Giancarlo Ruiz, whose experimental and visceral approach replicates Raul’s increasingly unhinged perspective. The Neighbor artfully plays with the claustrophobia of voyeurism, the terror of captivity and the urgency of a character study where the lead is unreliable and genuinely deranged.
– Drea Clark
76 minutes I In Spanish with English Subtitles
For more information and tickets visit the LA Film Fest event site here.
Cost: Screenings cost is $16.
For more information please contact
Carla Guerrero Tel: 310-825-4571
guerrero@international.ucla.edu
Download File: Neighbor_social-ln-1by.pdf
Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute