camaraderie

From Mexico to USA in We Are Mari Pepa (Somos Mari Pepa)

By Jenny Álvarez

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Somos Marie Pepa is a film with elements such as love, family and adolescence; a weird age, full of doubts, and desolation. This story is showing through Alex, a 16 year old teenager living with his grandma has various plans to occupy himself during the summer: writing a new song with his rock band, finding a job and having his first sexual experience and his gradma is essential part of his life.

The essence is in the music with several old bands of 60,70 and 80’s  like the Beatles and Alex contemplates his future as a rock star and as typical adolescent-male summer plans involves his life in a sweaty, urgent, beautifully honest bliss out. Obviously many characters are full of dreams and certain comedy in real life situations and desire, and camaraderie—give way to reality. Even all the Alex’s friends are part of a punk-rock wannabes from Guadalajara their friendship, he realizes that adult life isn’t necessarily all that it’s made out to be and the film’s portrait of the Mexican middle class mostly lacks any hope of progress in his future. It is directed by Director Samuel Kishi Leopo and Alejandro Gallardo, Arnold Ramirez, Rafael Andrade Munoz, Moises Galindo, Jaime Miranda, Petra Iniguez Robles.