Interview by Leopoldo Soto of the Mexican actor Juan Manuel Bernal, performed in OBEDIENCIA PERFECTA, in official competition
2013, Colour, Mexico, World Competition
Director : Luiz Urquiza Mondragon
Screenwriter : Luis Urquiza, Ernesto Alcocer. D'après/Based on: Tercer grado de obediencia perfecta. De/By: Ernesto Alcocer
Cinematographer : Serguei Saldívar Tanaka
Editor : Jorge Macaya
Cast : Juan Manuel Bernal, Sebastián Aguirre, Alejandro de Hoyos, Juan Ignacio Aranda, Juan Carlos Colombo, Luis Ernesto Franco, Claudette Maillé, Jesús Zavala
Music : Alejandro Giacomán
Film production and Sales : Prod.: María de Lourdes Garcia Rivera, Astillero Producciones S.A. de CV, Kepler 74, Col. Anzures del Miguel Hidalgo, C.P. 11590 Mexico (Mexique), tél.: 5531 00 65, astillerofilms2001@gmail.com
When 13-year-old seminarian Sacramento Santos joins a new order, Los Cruzados de Cristo, he hopes to rise through its three levels of obedience: 1. imperfect obedience, 2. imperfect obedience of the second degree, and finally 3. Perfect Obedience. But this progression proves to be more than just a spiritual journey. Sacramento is adopted by the order's founding father, Ángel de la Cruz, and over the course the year in which they live together, they fall in love and surrender to the most intense, blissful, and contradictory episode of their lives. Years later, older and wiser, Sacramento leaves the order regretting that episode, and he decides to seek justice from his old tutor.
Mexican filmmaker Luis Urquiza Mondragon worked as a producer in television at various levels and in over 15 films, In 2006 he directed a short film, Amore de madre. PERFECT OBEDIENCE marks his directorial debut in features.
01.09.2014 | The Montreal World Film Festival's blog
Cat. : PEOPLE