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Estar o No Estar (2016)

Estar o No Estar poster
Original title
Estar o no estar
Directed by
Marcelo González
Genre
drama film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A middle aged man moves to a new city after his mother dies. There he meets a woman and falls in love.

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What happens

Being or Not Being (Spanish: Estar o No Estar) is a 2015 Mexican drama film, directed by Marcelo González. The film stars Flavio Medina and Aislinn Derbez and was filmed in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz and Xalapa in the Mexican state of Veracruz. In the film, Augusto (Medina) is a forty-six years old single man who relocates to another city following his mother's death. He meets Nástenska (Derbez) and falls in love with her. The film is González first feature film and received six nominations for the 2017 Diosas de Plata awards winning for Best Supporting Actress (Tiaré Scanda) and Best Cinematography (Jerónimo Rodríguez García). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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