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Club Sandwich (2013)

Club Sandwich poster
Original title
Club sándwich
Directed by
Fernando Eimbcke
Genre
comedy film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A single mother and her teenage son spend their vacation at a nearly empty hotel. The boy explores his budding sexuality with a girl his age while his mother struggles with letting go.

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What happens

Club Sandwich (Spanish: Club Sándwich) is a 2013 Mexican comedy film written and directed by Fernando Eimbcke. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It won the Golden Shell at the 2013 San Sebastián film festival. This film, translated into Russian by Andrey Efremov, was shown in Moscow in June 2014 as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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