Porcelain Horse / Mejor no hablar (de ciertas cosas) is the powerful debut feature by Javier Andrade and was Ecuador’s submission to the 86th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Film competition. Hailed as a “an impressively strong and mature piece of work” by The Hollywood Reporter, Andrade’s film is a bittersweet and poignant family drama of sex, drugs and punk rock.
Paco Chavez leads a careless and charming life on the coast of Ecuador: a life that is all about illicit drugs and the forbidden love affair he carries on with Lucía, a former high school sweetheart who is now married to another man. One night, Paco and his brother Luis - a punk musician with an even bigger drug habit - break into their parent’s home in order to steal a porcelain horse that they intend to pawn, but their plan backfires when their father catches them in the act. The ensuing fight and its consequences will change the lives of everyone around them and haunt both brothers forever.
Winner of the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at Austin’s Cine Las Americas, and an official selection of the Miami, Warsaw, Sao Paulo, Goa, and Gijon film festivals, among others, Porcelain Horse is testament to the unprecedented strength and vitality of contemporary Ecuadorian cinema.
PORCELAIN HORSE / MEJOR NO HABLAR (DE CIERTAS COSAS
A film by Javier Andrade
(Ecuador, 2012, 104 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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