October 16: Pelo malo (dir. Mariana Rondón, Venezuela, 2013)
4:30 p.m. Room
SYNOPSIS
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale from Venezuelan writer-director Mariana Rondón.
QUOTES
“Bad Hair is a riveting and gripping domestic drama that simmers to a boil and it is heartbreaking in many ways. Rondon manages to capture both the wide-eyed innocence of childhood and the grating sound of that innocence scraping against the harsh realities of economically oppressive urban life.” – Brandy Dean, Pretty Clever Films.
