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  • 2015
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2015
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 2 h 13 m

Summary Set in Mexico City during three consecutive World Cup tournaments, three lives impacted by abduction intersect. Lupe, an idealistic cop, is tasked to investigate a crime ring and finds that justice has no value when a human life has a price. When Susana’s businessman-husband Arturo is taken, she must go outside the law to fight for his r...

Directed By: Everardo Gout

Written By: Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes, David Rutsala, Everardo Gout

  • 2015
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2015
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 2 h 13 m
Days of Grace
Metascore Mixed or average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
58
User Score Mixed or average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Set in Mexico City during three consecutive World Cup tournaments, three lives impacted by abduction intersect. Lupe, an idealistic cop, is tasked to investigate a crime ring and finds that justice has no value when a human life has a price. When Susana’s businessman-husband Arturo is taken, she must go outside the law to fight for his r...

Directed By: Everardo Gout

Written By: Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes, David Rutsala, Everardo Gout

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Metascore
Mixed or average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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70
May 4, 2015
Days of Grace is strong, brutal, despairing stuff. It’s also somewhat anticlimactic, by design.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 30, 2015
Mr. Gout combines a slick, kinetic style with a somber ethical sense. His movie is flashy and entertaining, but also earnestly concerned with the collapse of trust and integrity at every level of society.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
60
May 14, 2015
Gout undermines his own spiky, ambitious narrative with all the visual interference, as dazzling as it often is.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 28, 2015
The overwritten script has so many subplots it’s hard to keep the stories straight, especially when the ending throws a truly unexpected twist. But little matter; the exceptional tech work gives the film plenty of energy and excitement.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 26, 2015
Gout’s ambition pays off in a climactic flourish. And the assault-and-battery of camera tricks captures Mexico’s head-spinning everyday madness.
By Trevor Johnston FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 28, 2015
Most of this frantic moviemaking is more disorienting than riveting.
By Sam Weisberg FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 26, 2015
Coherence croaks as Gout dishes enough jump-cuts, whip pans and slo-mo assassinations to make Michael Bay look restrained, but the multi-handed mood music offers meaty compensations.
By Kevin Harley FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARP Sélection, Arte Mecánica Producciones, Casa B Productions, Dias de Gracia Producciones, Fondo de Inversión y Estímulos al Cine (FIDECINE)
Release Date May 1, 2015
Duration 2 h 13 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/pages/Days-Of-Grace/1414407185537024?ref=hl
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Awards

Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 8 Wins & 15 Nominations
Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Lleida Latin-American Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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