SummaryClaudia (Ximena Ayala), a product demonstrator in her twenties, meets ailing matriarch Martha (Lisa Owen) in a hospital room after Claudia is admitted for appendicitis. The women bond over a bag of potato chips passed between their beds. Martha has four kids from three different fathers; Claudia has been on her own her entire life. When Martha sp... Read More
Directed By:Claudia Sainte-Luce
Written By:Claudia Sainte-Luce
The Amazing Catfish
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69
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80% Positive
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Jun 19, 2014
90
Grainily shot but radiating life, The Amazing Catfish is an enormously affecting portrait of a family in crisis that dares to hope.
Jun 12, 2014
70
If there’s a certain depth missing in The Amazing Catfish, the film brings forth the small-scale pleasures and poignancy of an ambling short story.
Jun 10, 2014
70
Claudia Sainte-Luce's semi-autobiographical indie has a knack for subverting stereotypes without making a big deal about it.
Jun 10, 2014
63
The familiar premise is done with enough intelligence and heartfelt conviction that it rises above its potentially cliché trappings.
Jun 12, 2014
60
What keeps The Amazing Catfish from greatness despite the evident skill at every level of its production—the editing is sharp, and the actors are all excellent, especially the children—is the sense that Sainte-Luce is luxuriating in quirkiness for its own sake.
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Jul 23, 2023
8
Sin aspavientos y pocas aspiraciones, es una de esas historias con personajes arquetípicos, casi realistas y fáciles de identificar, que nos ayuda a ver la vida con otros ojos y hacia el futuro, incluyendo el acto final con sabor melancólico.
Production Company:
- Canibal Networks
- Cine Canibal
- Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (FOPROCINE)
- Good Lap Production
- Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
- Jaqueca Films
Release Date:Jun 13, 2014
Duration:1 h 29 m
Awards
Mexican Cinema Journalists
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Locarno Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
