Parque Via
The days of Beto’s life are all the same. Every morning, the alarm rings at the same time; he takes a shower, eats his breakfast and gets to work. He sweeps the stairs, cleans the windows, cuts the lawn and irons his white suits. The routine of it doesn’t seem to bother the old man — indeed, quite the contrary: The Indio is the last man staying in this empty villa in the center of Mexico City, which shall be sold soon. He’s paid to maintain the house and the grounds, which belong to a rich family of the white upper class, and he hopes very strongly that nobody will show interest in the building. Where else could he, the outsider, go? (…)
With ”Parque Vía”, Rivero has made a touching as well as stylistically independent movie that fits perfectly into the Mexican New Wave, alongside the films of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu and Carlos Reygadas.
– NICOLE HESS / FIRPRESCI-JURY, LOCARNO 2008
Duration: 86 min
Dialogue: Spanish
Subtitles: English
