Honest Days (2021)
Honest Days
”A struggling actress faces unemployment and must balance her career comeback with motherhood.”
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First feature film by Mexican filmmaker Ulises Pérez, screenwriter of acclaimed Mexican movies such as I Am Happiness on Earth, and continuity supervisor for other productions like Devil Between the Legs, directed by Arturo Ripstein. The Honest Days (Los días francos) is the story of Amanda (Stephanie Salas), a minimally talented actress with a forgotten career who gets fired from her job hosting infomercials. In this crisis, she begins to reassess her profession, her life, and her place in her young son's life, whom she has neglected for years. An interesting Mexican production that reflects on artistic vocation and its sometimes excessively high costs.
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When she is fired from her only job in a series of infomercials, Amanda, an actress with little talent and whose film career is forgotten, decides to resume her career in the midst of an economic crisis that leads her to a questionnaire about her vocation, but also, that the shore to rethink its responsibility as the mother of Nicolás, a 7-year-old boy to whom she had not paid much attention until then.
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