El Rey

El Rey de la Fiesta (King of the Party) (2021)

Salomón Askenazi’s El Rey de la Fiesta is – much like Spike Jonze’s Adaptation. (2002) – concerned with identical twins and twinned identities. Where 50-year-old husband and father Héctor (Giancarlo Ruiz) is uptight, unhappy and deprived – self-deprived, even – of everything that he desires (sex, fun, freedom), his brother Rafael (also Ruiz) is Héctor’s…

Veces

Two Times You (Dos Veces Tú) (2018)

“I feel kind of edgy,” Tania Cohen (Anahi Dávila) tells her cousin, best friend and ‘soul mate’ Daniela Cohen (Melissa Barrera) as they prepare for a friend’s wedding reception at the opening of Salomón Askenazi’s Two Times You (Dos Veces Tú). Their conversation is intercut with shots of an upset Tania walking alone down an…