The 2022 winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s special jury award, Dos Estaciones follows 50-year-old businesswoman María García (a magnetic Teresa Sánchez) as she struggles to keep alive her family’s once-thriving tequila factory. An intimate portrait of the emotional and physical toll a person can experience as they strive to hang onto their business and continue their familial legacy, director Juan Pablo González has said about the film,
“[María’s family] had dreams that this process of industrialization was going to take them and this community [of the Jalisco highlands in Mexico] to a place of abundance, and that they would become an economic pillar for the community, that everyone would have more because they have more. But the reality is that they are still too small, and they cannot compete. In this world they are excitedly stepping into, they are eaten alive. María represents the people who, for a couple of decades, found vast abundance, and operated with a loyalty to their hometown communities, but who were then devoured for their inability to compete. This film is about her existential conundrum, the impossible conflict she finds herself in.”
This Friday and Saturday at IU Cinema, see the film that has been called “gorgeously moody” by The Wrap, “the perfect balance of ingredients” by The Hollywood Reporter, and “sparse but striking” by Paste Magazine.
“A bracingly potent distillation of drama, psychological portraiture and passionate flouting of clichés…fronted by an arrestingly contained performance by Teresa Sánchez.” – Jonathan Romney, Screen
Dos Estaciones will be screened at IU Cinema on September 16 at 7 pm and September 17 at 4 pm as part of the New Americas Cinema series.