Following her debut feature Nora’s Will (Cinco días sin Nora), award-winning Mexican director-writer Mariana Chenillo returns to MiamiFF to present her second feature film, Paradise (Paraíso) at MIFFecito on Saturday, October 18th at MDC’s Tower Theater. The film’s eponymous paradise (based on a short story) refers to Satélite, the suburb of Mexico City where Carmen (Daniela Rincon) and her husband Alfredo (Andrés Almedia) are from, which is their “paradise,” representing what preceded their departure from the perfect life they had there before they moved to the city as a result of Alfredo’s promotion at work. Testing the stout soul mates’ loving relationship, Paradise draws upon society’s obsession with the perfect body through light-hearted humor yet poignant wit.
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Andrés Almeida and Daniela Rincon in Paradise
After taking home the Audience Award at MiamiFF26 for Nora’s Will—a dramedy set among believers and non-believers, politicos and pretenders in Mexico City’s Jewish community, who are all forced to confront a chasm of cultural and familial issues with ironic hilarity—Chenillo went on to win the Best Picture Ariel (Mexico’s Oscar equivalent) in 2010, the first female director to be bestowed with this award.
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Mariana Chenillo at Regal South Beach at MiamiFF26; scene in Nora’s Will
In a recent Indiewire LatinoBuzz story, Carlos Aguilar’s interview shines a bright light on Chenillo, who has “clearly developed an original voice in the crowded field of modern Mexican cinema that has expanded in recent years, opening spaces for more original stories. She manages to infuse her work with a distinctive female perspective and a peculiar vision of Mexican society. Her latest narrative, Paradise, deals with obesity, insecurities, the quest for the perfect self, and finding fulfillment beyond the superficial.” Tickets to MIFFecito go on sale to the general public on Thursday, September 18th. Visit miff2020.wpengine.com or call 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) for tickets. —Tatyana Chiocchetti[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
