Wolfe Video has selected
June 4 as the DVD debut date for writer/director Aurora Guerrero’s Mosquita
y Mari.
After working the film
festival circuit last year — to good success, including Sundance — the film got
an all too brief arthouse run which generated ticket sales of $8,614 last
August and then dropped out of sight. The
ARR comes in at 305 days.
It is Wolfe Video to the
rescue for the next phase — home entertainment — for this sweet, coming-of-age
film that certainly accomplished its goal of getting beyond the noise of the
indie film world with a micro theatrical run and festival competitions; the
reviews and buzz have been solid.
Yolanda (Fenessa Pineda,
in her first starring role) is a high school senior with bright prospects for
college. Her parents (played by Joaquín
Garrido and Laura Patalano) have worked their butts off to insure that she has
the future and opportunities that they never had. As a result, they’ve kept a close eye on her
and made sure that the traps of high school pressures haven’t bubbled to the
surface.
All of that seems to
change when Mari (Venecia Troncoso) transfers in. She’s “wild” and not likely to finish out the
year. Easily dismissed as just an
accident waiting to happen, Yolanda finds herself strangely attractive to the newcomer
and more or less takes her under her wing.
There is a sexual tension
between the two, which is never fully explored, although the
implications are clearly there. Mom and
dad would never approve of such a relationship, but there is a certain irony in
that. They’ve raised their daughter to
excel and be a “good” person … her adoption, care and attention to Mari
embraces all of those qualities that they expect of her.
This is especially true
when it is revealed that Mari’s rebellious nature is actually masking some very
troubling issues in her family life.
Friendship — even love and affection — are the things she needs in her
life, but the deck may be stacked against Yolanda (aka: Mosquita) and Mari.
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