dir. Mariana Rondón
Year. 2013
country. Venezuela
run-time. 93 mins
rating. 15
Tickets
Full: £6.00
Concs: PayWhatYouCan
Doors 19:30 - Film 20:00
Our Latin American Cinema season continues with:
PELO MALO (BAD HAIR)
Pelo Malo tells the story of Junior, a 9-year-old boy growing up in a housing project in Venezuela with his mother and baby brother. As Junior begins to dream of straightening his unruly haircut (his “bad hair”) after seeing a slick pop star on TV, his mother distances herself even more from the son she is struggling to comprehend, a son in desperate need of a father figure. Pelo Malo is a charming coming-of-age story that manages to carry its universal emotions while still evoking the hard life depicted in the neighbourhood of Caracas.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
“A deceptively sharp insight into life on the margins...
Playful, perceptive and poignant, as well as highly entertaining.”