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- 2021
- R
- HBO Max
- 1 h 37 m
- 2021
- R
- HBO Max
- 1 h 37 m
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.
Directed By: Alexis Gambis
Written By: Alexis Gambis
- 2021
- R
- HBO Max
- 1 h 37 m
- 2021
- R
- HBO Max
- 1 h 37 m
Son of Monarchs
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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.
Directed By: Alexis Gambis
Written By: Alexis Gambis
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Gambis, who is both a director and a biologist, has crafted a piece of art that captivates as much as it informs.
Son of Monarchs is an expertly crafted visual experience that weaves disparate themes and images.
Rather like the butterfly wings that are its central metaphor, Son of Monarchs is deceptively fragile-seeming, yet robust, structurally complex and vibrantly hued.
The film’s rich imagery will be imprinted in your memory, returning to you in dreams.
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.
Despite some pacing issues, Son of Monarchs serves as a heartbreakingly layered depiction of an immigrant’s journey to rediscover a fractured identity.
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.
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Production Company
Imaginal Disc,
Labocine
Release Date Oct 15, 2021
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Website
http://www.sonofmonarchs.com/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination
