Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Fire Within
  • Devenir
  • Dreams We Share (The)
  • Chemsex: A Journey Within
  • Christmas Karma
  • Heated Rivalry
  • Goodbye Love
  • Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy
  • Breakwater
  • High Wire
  • Three Loves
  • Woodland
  • Sisterhood
  • Y
  • Tell Me That You Love Me
  • Last Exit Gran Canaria
  • Come See Me in the Good Light
  • 3000 km by Bike
  • Aurora
  • Saving Etting Street
  • Good Child (A)
  • Pawesome!
  • My Brother
  • Girls Like Us
  • Summer School, 2001
  • Wolf Among the Swans (A)
  • Secret of Me (The)
  • Camp
  • Explode São Paulo, Gil
  • French Italian (The)
  • Fuck My Son!
  • La 42
  • Wild Foxes
  • We're So Dead
  • Fraternity
  • Pillion
  • Strike (The)
  • Four Stars
  • Children of Silver Street (The)
  • Spying Stars

Cola de Mono

Country: Chile, Language: Spanish, 102 mins

  • Director: Alberto Fuguet
  • Writer: Alberto Fuguet
  • Producer: Alberto Fuguet; Nicolas Arenas; Sebastian Arriagada; Roberto Mardones; Mauricio Varela

CGiii Comment

Here's a little film that you will either love...or, loathe...we loved it!

Not only is it totally deranged...it's hot...it's sweaty...and, it's - unashamedly - in your face, from start to finish.

Real life brothers deliver rather bravura performances as on-screen [uninhibited] brothers...who both harbour and share a little secret, that is...until the unmentionable hits the fan...and, when it hits, it makes for one great big psychological mess.

Alberto Fuguet has drawn a line between what is art and what is porn...with the limited budget he had, he resisted the temptation to cross-over into all-out debauchery...which would have been the easier route to take...with such meagre funds!

Instead, he has delivered a twisted and skillful tale of mind-blowing dysfunction...with a fatalistic desolation thrown in...just to keep the emotion a few degrees below boiling point.

Usually, when an auteur throws everything - but the kitchen sink - at the screen only a fraction sticks. Everything sticks here! It's both riveting and twisted, horrid and horrific...talented and totally inspired!

This is what can be produced on a limited budget...when the talent - on both sides of the camera - is unlimited.

A marvelously warped and torrid film!


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives — from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.

Cast & Characters

Santiago Rodríguez-Costabal as Vicente / Borja Adulto
Cristóbal Rodriguez-Costabal as Borja Adolescente
Carmina Riego as Irene Ovando de Olivos
Diego Nawrath as Guido
Benjamin Bou as Isaías
Mauricio Vaca as Gaspar
Daniel Morera as Oscar