Sundown (2021)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 83 minuten
Country:
France / Mexico / Sweden
Directed by: Michel Franco
Stars: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Iazua Larios
IMDb score:
6,5 (8.873)
Releasedate: 8 April 2022
Sundown plot
The wealthy British couple Alice and Neil are on holiday in Acapulco. Their children Colin and Alexa are also with them. When an emergency arises elsewhere, their trip is ruined. While a family member disrupts the close bond, tensions within the family rise.
Actors and actresses
Neil Bennett
Alice Bennett
Bernice
Richard
Alexa Bennett
Colin Bennett
Albert Thompson
Luisa
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Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2490 messages
- 1702 votes
The film starts with a (wealthy) family enjoying a relaxing holiday in a tropical country, but then something strange happens and the man turns out to be not quite what you expected: the man is intriguing because he is unfathomable and, partly because of his strange behavior, the story is familiar. strange – even some surrealistic – twists that are equally intriguing. In the end it becomes clear what is going on, but at the same time the film poses the question of what is really important in life: enjoying the sun with a beer on the beach or is life not a holiday and you have to behave responsibly (even though isn't it an ethical dilemma for the main character but does he long for the sun because his mind darkens to which the title 'sundown' also refers)? All in all, a fascinating and charming film.
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scorsese
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- 13239 messages
- 11129 votes
Good film in which a holiday in a distant place for a family is disrupted by tragic news. A fascinating main character who is well portrayed here by Tim Roth. His motives and history are unclear for a long time, which is perhaps why the film remains entertaining.
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Collins
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- 7353 messages
- 4350 votes
The location of the film is called Acapulco. Picturesque images of the holiday resort adorn the film but give a false image. Acapulco is not a perfect holiday paradise. Structural indigenous violence is part of the daily holiday routine. The people who holiday there stubbornly bury their heads in the sand at the many violent incidents that plague the area. Nobody cares. Nobody talks about it. It is as if the overlap between the idyll and reality does not take place. The tone has been set. The atmosphere created by director Michel Franco is disturbing and surreal.
The director mainly allows his characters to interact in silence. Franco uses imagery much more than the spoken word and leaves it to the viewer to determine what the film is actually about. The story moves slowly. In fact, not much happens.
An emotionless man (Tim Roth) is on vacation with his sister and her children. Moderate pleasure, boredom and lethargy alternate. Moods wrapped in images that feel dreamlike and nightmarish at the same time. Images that capture the wonderfully radiant sun, the blissful warmth of which you feel, but the radiance of which, due to the bored behavior of the holidaymakers and the violent incidents, has a cold and distant effect at the same time.
Beautiful role by Roth, who plays a ambivalent character. Is it good or is it bad. In any case, he makes an indifferent impression. At the end of the film, his behavior is somewhat explained, but not enough not to label it as curious.
Sundown is not a film of statements. Franco shows a world without cohesion. A world falling apart. A world that is merciless, harsh and certainly not sunny. And in that world that is consciously or unconsciously ignored by holidaymakers, you can happily just enjoy your drink on the terrace in the sun.
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