Son of Monarchs

Name: Son of Monarchs
Genre: Drama
Released: October 15, 2021
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Alexia Rasmussen, Angélica Aragón, Angelina Peláez, Electra Avellan, Emily Keefe

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HBO Max | Release Date: October 15, 2021 | R

Starring: Alexia Rasmussen, Angélica Aragón, Angelina Peláez, Electra Avellan, Emily Keefe, Gabino Rodríguez, Jarod Lindsey, Jay Potter, Juan Ugarte, Noé Hernández, Paulina Gaitan, Tenoch Huerta, William Mapother

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Available to stream on HBO Max November 2.

Summary: A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.

Director: Alexis Gambis

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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The Playlist Gregory Ellwood

Oct 14, 2021

Gambis, who is both a director and a biologist, has crafted a piece of art that captivates as much as it informs. Read full review

Sabina Dana Plasse

Oct 14, 2021

Son of Monarchs is a type of philosophical journey but one of beauty and mystical discovery. Read full review

Isabelia Herrera

Oct 14, 2021

The film’s rich imagery will be imprinted in your memory, returning to you in dreams. Read full review

Sarah Bea Milner

Oct 21, 2021

Son of Monarchs is an expertly crafted visual experience that weaves disparate themes and images. Read full review

IndieWire Jude Dry

Oct 14, 2021

In Son of Monarchs, Gambis has mapped the butterflies’ migratory paths and genetic patterns onto Mendel’s search for belonging. It’s an inspired blend of science and narrative, and an affecting allegory emerges from the unique imagery. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Oct 15, 2021

As it traverses the sacred and the factual, the film intently portrays the liminal space anyone who’s ever left home knows well. It’s the threshold between the person you were, who you’ve become, and how the two halves are at odds mutating into a unique color, a new prism-like worldview. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Oct 15, 2021

Son of Monarchs, which is driven by mood as much as it is a metaphor that it can’t get enough of, embodies the equal ambition and shortcomings of a writer/director trying feel their way through science, while having as minimal a narrative as possible. Read full review

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