Big World Pictures has announced the U.S, theatrical release of the Argentine dark comedy Most People Die on Sundays / Los domingos mueren más personas, a film written by, directed by and starring Iair Said. This film had its world premiere at Acid at Cannes Film Festival last year, and will be released at the Quad Cinema in New York City on Friday, May 2, and at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles on Friday, May 9. Other cities will follow.
Loosely based on Said’s real-life experiences when his own father died, Most People Die on Sundays is the story David (Iair Said), a young middle-class Jewish man—corpulent, gay and afraid of flying—who returns to Buenos Aires after the death of his uncle. During the trip home, after a year spent studying in Italy, David learns that his mother plans to disconnect his father’s respirator as there is no chance of the man emerging from a years-long coma.
David will oscillate between living with his mother, alienated by the pain of the imminent loss of her husband, and a voracity to fill his existential anguish, occupying his hours learning to drive, going to specialists cheaper than in Europe, and trying to have sex with any man who shows him a little attention. Circumstances do little to help David mature until he is finally forced to face his father’s mortality head-on and begin thinking about the future in concrete terms.
Deftly wielding both pathos and humor, the director starts from the question: What is the price that those of us who are left have to pay when a loved one dies? In addition to writing and directing, Iair Said stars as David. He is joined by legendary Latin American stage and screen actor Rita Cortese (Wild Tales, Herencia), famous Argentine singer Juliana Gattas and Pablo Larraín’s favorite Antonia Zegers (The Club, The Punishment).
