Winner of the prestigious Camera D'Or prize for Best First Feature at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and one of the most controversial films of the year Leap Year (Ao Bisiesto) from Mexico is the outstanding debut feature film of Australian director Michael Rowe a character study on loneliness featuring an extraordinary leading performance by Mnica Del Carmen (Babel) supported by Gustavo Snchez Parra (Amores Perros Man on Fire). This highly charged sexual thriller set within the small confines of a Mexican apartment follows 29 days in the dispirited life of freelance... journalist Laura Lopez as she moves from one anonymous sexual encounter to another. Soon Laura meets a man by the name of Arturo and it is not long before she is submitting to demeaning sexual acts as part of their relationship a tragic psychological reaction to a secret trauma from her past which occurred on the previous leap year. When Laura marks a red square around an upcoming date on her calendar wall the wheels are set in motion for what will turn out to be a startling conclusion. [show more]
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Mexican psychodrama portraying a woman's intense loneliness and her journey into a world of sexual experimentation. Freelance journalist Laura Lopez (Monica del Carmen) lives alone, leaving her tiny flat only to shop for groceries and to pick up random, faceless men for sex. Her repeated attempts at intimacy with these men come to nothing until she meets Artur (Gustavo Sanchez Parra), who at last gives her the attention she craves. But as time goes by Artur's sadistic tendencies come to the fore as Laura lays herself bare to the aggressive and demeaning sexual acts he performs. This controversial, sexually charged psychological thriller won the Camera d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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