SummaryDos 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 ... Read More
Directed By:Juan Pablo González
Written By:Ilana Coleman, Ana Isabel Fernández, Juan Pablo González
Dos Estaciones
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Universal Acclaim
82
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Generally Favorable
6.3
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Sep 8, 2022
90
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.
Sep 1, 2022
90
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.
Sep 9, 2022
88
Indeed, González has the keen eye of a documentarian that can perceive the very details that normally escape one’s gaze. His film demonstrates just how much we can glean by slowing down to savor the sights around us and those who inhabit them. To take the time to look at the world through the eyes of others rather than be limited by our own perspective.
Sep 1, 2022
83
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.
Sep 1, 2022
75
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.
Sep 8, 2022
63
For all its lush cinematography, capturing regional custom and dramatic panoramas alike, this is a film about repression, an inhibition that no amount of tequila can take away.
Sep 1, 2022
63
It’s the detail, the sense of small lives closed off and growing more isolated that makes this film worth watching.
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Jul 16, 2023
7
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 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.
Production Company:
- Sin Sitio Cine
- Diorama
- In Vivo Films
- Servicios Andrómeda Films
- Sin Sitio Cine
Release Date:Sep 9, 2022
Duration:1 h 39 m
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Morelia International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
