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Original Film Title: Pégame
Director’s Name: Dylan Verrechia
Writer’s Name: Dylan Verrechia
Producer: Dylan Verrechia
Country of Origin: Mexico
Country of Filming: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
Film Description:
Along with their dog Wicca, Ana and Vladi are starting their new life in the foothills of the Kumeyaay tribal land. As Ana learns she’s pregnant, in a society where abortion is not legal, she turns more and more abusive towards Vladi and Wicca.
“Pégame” is a folktale based on the fable of the scorpio and the frog, and a lucid dream in the tradition of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, Peter Greenaway’s “The Draughtman’s Contract”, Alex Cox’s “Sid and Nancy”, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s “Betty Blue”, Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro”, Mike Leigh’s “Naked”, Tsai Ming-lian’s “Vive l’Amour”, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Cure”, Alfonso Cuarón’s “Y tu mamá también”, Bong Joon-Ho’s “Memories of Murder”, Satoshi Kon’s “Paprika”, Yi’nan Diao’s “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Évolution”, Andrey Zvyagintsey’s “Loveless”, Ari Aster’s “Midsommar”, or Julie Lecoustre’s “Rien à foutre”.