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The Amazing Catfish
People standing around a yellow Volkswagon Beetle
Los insólitos peces gato
Directed byClaudia Sainte-Luce
Written byClaudia Sainte-Luce
Produced byGeminiano Pineda
Starring
  • Ximena Ayala
  • Lisa Owen
  • Sonia Franco
  • Wendy Guillén
CinematographyAgnès Godard
Edited bySantiago Ricci
Music byMadame Recamier
Production
companies
Cine Canibal, Jaqueca Films, Good Lap Production
Release date
  • 10 August 2013 (2013-08-10) (Locarno)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish
Budget$1,300,000

The Amazing Catfish (Template:Lang-es) is a Mexican comedy-drama film, written and directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce.

The film stars Ximena Ayala as Claudia, a young woman who becomes a caretaker for Martha (Lisa Owen), an older matriarch dying of AIDS.[1]

The film premiered on August 10, 2013 at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won two Junior Jury Awards and was a nominee for the Golden Leopard. It had its North American premiere on September 10, 2013 at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and was named winner of the FIPRESCI Discovery Prize.[2]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 100% based on reviews from 8 critics.[3] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on reviews from 5 critics.[4]

The film won several awards including International Critics Award at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

References

  1. ^ The Amazing Catfish Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine at tiff.net.
  2. ^ "TIFF 2013: 12 Years a Slave wins film fest’s top prize". Toronto Star, September 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "The Amazing Catfish". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
  4. ^ "The Amazing Catfish (2013)". Metacritic. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
  5. ^ Los insólitos peces gato, retrieved 2018-01-12