Lázaro at Night (2024)

Original title

Lázaro de noche

Directed by

Nicolás Pereda

Genre

drama

Country

Mexico, Canada

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

15

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three actors in a Mexican theatre collective audition for a film director with unusual casting methods. They find themselves caught in a love triangle and forced to examine their own personal lives.

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What happens

Lázaro at Night (Spanish: Lázaro de noche) is a 2024 Canadian-Mexican docufiction film, directed by Nicolás Pereda. Made in conjunction with the Mexican theatre collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, the film centres on Lázaro Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo and Francisco Barreiro, three actors in the collective who become embroiled in a love triangle while auditioning for roles in a film, while being forced to evaluate their own personal lives due to the director's unorthodox casting methods. The film premiered in June 2024 at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, and had its North American premiere in the Wavelengths program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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