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Mexico’s Santiago Mohar Volkow Talks Madcap Rotterdam Title ‘A History of Love & War’: ‘Comedy Is Always Challenging Because It’s Constantly Risking Ridicule’
The film features amongst selections in the Harbor program, dedicated to a wide range of contemporary narratives.
The plot opens on insufferably spoilt and corrupt real estate mogul Pepe Sanzhez Campo (Andrew Leland Rogers) as his mega-mall development plans roil on and an engagement offer to his affluent love interest Constanza (Lucía Gómez Robledo) proves a success. When militant forces challenge his land rights and an otherwise cliche bachelor party turns sour after his fiancé’s lover Teo (Darío Yazbek Bernal) sets off a rip-roaring tide change, Pepe’s left with a reckoning that derails his privileged future. Providing a satiating laugh through grand depravity and betrayal, the project manages dastardly whimsy, Pepe eventually becoming an emblem of the country’s brutal past, a tool used to examine residual disparity.
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