Impossible Things (film)


Impossible Things is a 2021 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Contreras and written by Fanie Soto. Starring Nora Velázquez and Benny Emmanuel. It premiered on June 17, 2021, in Mexican theaters.

Synopsis

Matilde is an older woman who suffers domestic abuse by her husband when he was alive, finds a friend in Miguel, a 19-year-old boy who is abandoned by his mother.

Cast

The actors participating in this film are:
  • Nora Velázquez as Matilde
  • * Adriana Llabres as Young Matilde
  • Benny Emmanuel as Miguel
  • Salvador Garcini as Porfirio
  • * Lucas Mollard as Young Porfirio / Faceless Porfirio
  • Luisa Huertas as Eugenia
  • Andrés Delgado as Lalo
  • Gabriela Cartol as Laura
  • Juan Carlos Medellin as Manuel Chang
  • Ari Gallegos as Male Singer
  • Pablo Marín as Policeman
  • Héctor Holten as Néstor
  • Norma Pablo as Elena
  • Michelle Betancourt as Daniela
  • Ángel Flores Torres as Chava
  • Haydee Leyva as Galaxia
  • Adrián Vázquez as Plumber
  • Tete Espinoza as Rosita
  • Bruno Coronel as Narro
  • Veronica Toussaint as Female Singer
  • Nora Isabel Huerta as Demonstrator
  • Armando Casas as Security Guard
  • Claudia Acosta as Employee
  • Christian Cortés as Ernesto
  • Paulina Álvarez Muñoz as La Güera
  • Danae Reynaud as Girl who buys drugs

Reception

Critical reception

Alejandro Alemán from Semanario Eje Central wrote: "Although the most cynical will find friendship between a septuagenarian and a teenager impossible,, it is also impossible not to recognize the good manufacturing of this film that aims to make us smile. It succeeds, and by far." Jesús Chavarría from La Razón de México wrote: "The director does not bet on sensationalism or technical fanfare, nor are there false pretensions or condescension, only the trade and honesty at the service of a story that leads the nature of empathy to take shape in the cinema."