Dos Estaciones

Name: Dos Estaciones
Genre: Drama
Released: September 9, 2022
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera, Teresa Sánchez

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The Cinema Guild | Release Date: September 9, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera, Teresa Sánchez

Summary: Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded to foreign corporations. Once oneDos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, María knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community's primary economy and source of pride.… Expand

Director: Juan Pablo González

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Jonathan Romney

Sep 1, 2022

Given that it’s about a tequila factory, Mexican drama Dos Estaciones is as sobering as they come – but it’s also a bracingly potent distillation of drama, psychological portraiture and passionate flouting of clichés, both national and sexual. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Sep 1, 2022

At once a vivid portrait of a place and its people, an unsentimental ode to the art and craft of tequila-making, a damning depiction of the results of globalizing economic policies, and an exquisite character study, with Teresa Sánchez delivering a performance of potent restraint. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Sep 8, 2022

At once specific and expansive, Dos Estaciones can be described several ways: as a drama, a character study, a meditative exploration of the ravages of globalization. At the same time, part of the movie’s pleasure is how it avoids facile categorization. Read full review

IndieWire Carlos Aguilar

Sep 1, 2022

González’s fiction is so indelibly tied to the reality of the place and its inebriating spirit that certain segments of the film (particularly those focused on the painstaking work of making tequila) give the impression of watching an observational documentary. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 1, 2022

In a sense, Dos Estaciones creates its own gripping shot-chaser cycle of moods, the accumulative effect of landscape beauty, grim news, observed process (the machinery of making tequila), and abiding solemnity from Sánchez’s commanding turn, giving us plenty to digest when the incident-heavy final stretch occurs. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Oct 6, 2022

For years it feels like the upcoming tequila shortage has been whispered about. But with so many celebrities announcing their own tequila brands, sometimes it’s hard to grasp the dire situation many tequila plants are facing. Juan Pablo González’s film Dos Estaciones centers around this very real crisis, a subtle reflection on the political and environmental pressures Mexican-owned tequila factories are facing. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 1, 2022

It’s the detail, the sense of small lives closed off and growing more isolated that makes this film worth watching. Read full review

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bertobellamy

Jul 16, 2023

It portrays very well the inherent frustration of leading an SME in Mexico, where so much has to do with external factors. Teresa Sánchez, who plays the desperate owner of a tequila factory on the brink of ruin, emerges as the soul of the film; she impresses by conveying despair with soIt portrays very well the inherent frustration of leading an SME in Mexico, where so much has to do with external factors. Teresa Sánchez, who plays the desperate owner of a tequila factory on the brink of ruin, emerges as the soul of the film; she impresses by conveying despair with so little expression and a rather enigmatic performance. The almost documentary approach chosen by director Juan Pablo González allows us to take a look at the national industry of the emblematic drink, threatened by environmental issues and foreign interference. What is strange is the inclusion of a subplot around the protagonist's trans stylist, who lives her own path as a businesswoman, although in different circumstances. Beyond this parallelism, I did not quite understand what González wanted to do with it. Be that as it may, "Two Seasons" hits the mark with its theme and by establishing the main character as an icon of resistance in the midst of the catastrophe. Incredible that Sánchez wasn't nominated for an Ariel for her work.… Expand

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