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Life Is

Country: United States, Mexico, Language: Spanish, 117 mins

Original Title

La vida es
  • Director: Lorena Villarreal
  • Writer: Lorena Villarreal, Ian Martin, Diana López, Alba Garza
  • Producer: Janeth Aguirre, Denisse Chapa, Darian De La Fuente, Glenn Garland, Adrián Geyer, Phin Glynn, Naian González Norvind, Iván Gutiérrez Araico, Axel Kuschevatzky, Mariana Monroy, Delfina Montecchia, Sandra Rivadeneyra Noriega, Cindy Teperman, Lorena Villarreal, Paloma Isabel Cabrera Yañez

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Forty-year-old Nora hits a life crisis in a rowdy, free-flowing, and playfully uninhibited Mexican dramedy that goes all in, full speed, with endless experimental verve.

As Nora approaches her 40th birthday, she wonders what the point of everything is. To figure out what "life is", she’s forced to confront her family past, her relationship with her husband and their polyamorous lifestyle, her (non-)career, and death itself. In the mix are a childhood friend who disappeared when she was young, a best-friend-cousin, a loved aunt, a piano—plus a whole bunch of other disparate characters. It’s funny, sad, sexy, weird, exhausting, embarrassing, and irresistible to tag along as Lorena Villarreal reflects on feminism, middle age, love, loss, and resistance.

Camilla Larsson


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Cast & Characters

Paulina García
Naian González Norvind
Natalia Plascencia
Rubén Ochandiano
Geraldine Zinat
Lumi Cavazos
Mariano Palacios
Daniel Damuzi
Tina Romero
Fernando Ciangherotti
Daniela Luque
María Castellá
Felipe Rojas
Carlos Embry
London Garza Culbertson
Marbrisa Medellín
Nicole de Albornoz
Kendra Jabbour
Hillary Alarcón
Lumine Carleton Duarte
Irasema Aguilar López
Miguel Álvarez
Ángel G. Brophy
Waldo Facco
Pablo Gálvez