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BAD HAIR at BAM

  • Brooklyn Academy of Music 30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11217 United States (map)
“Bold and intelligently perceptive.
Provocative and gripping.”
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— IndieWire


BAD HAIR / PELO MALO
(Mariana Rondón, 2013, 93 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
With Samuel Lange, Zambrano Samantha, Castillo Beto Benítez

Junior, a nine-year-old boy living in a bustling Caracas tenement with his widowed mother and younger brother, believes he has pelo malo—“bad hair,” a term widely applied to naturally curly ethnic hair—and tries to straighten it so he can look like a popular singer in his school photo. His unemployed yet overworked mother suspects her son is gay, but Grandma is more accepting, teaching Junior to dance to one of her favorite 60s rock ‘n’ roll tunes. Writer-director Mariana Rondón grounds her film in the cultural realities of working-class Venezuela, finding warmth and humor between mother and son even as the uncertainties of pre-adolescence threaten to pull them apart, in a feature that won the Golden Shell (Best Film) at the 2013 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Thursday, November 20, 7pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Source:: https://www.bam.org/film/2025/bad-hair
Earlier Event: November 1
Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz
 
 
 
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