Leap Year (2010)
"Año bisiesto" (original title)

Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo, and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.

Director:

Michael Rowe

Writers:

Lucia Carreras, Michael Rowe

Stars:

Monica del Carmen, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Armando Hernández

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Monica del Carmen	...	Laura
Gustavo Sánchez Parra	...	Arturo
Armando Hernández	...	Hombre 3
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Diego Chas	...	Hombre 1
Ernesto González	...	Viejito
Bertha Mendiola	...	Viejita
José Juan Meraz	...	Novio Vecina
Nur Rubio	...	Cajera
Jaime Sierra	...	Hombre 2
Ireri Solís	...	Vecina
Marco Zapata	...	Raúl

Storyline

Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo, and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.

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Plot Keywords:

calendar | mexico | one night stand | female frontal nudity | nudity | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

24 June 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Leap Year

Filming Locations:

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Company Credits

Production Co:

Machete Producciones, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

Even the Cockroach Gives a Top Performance

A bleak study of loneliness set in a claustrophobic apartment in Mexico City featuring a fearless performance, or a masochistic one, take your pick, by Monica Del Carmen as Laura. Laura spends most of her days and nights in her joyless apartment spying on her neighbors and inventing relationships with them in her mind. She occasionally goes out to clubs and brings home men for unrewarding sex. They invariably leave her lonelier than before. She meets Arturo (Armando Hernandez) who brings a sado-masochistic satisfaction to her sexual life. Meanwhile she ominously checks off the dates of her calendar toward the end of the month marked in red. This film is as explicit as it needs to be and Laura's world is not easy to view. Director Michael Rowe has achieved the film he sat out to make, I'm sure, and the totality of the realism can be uncomfortable as it should be. By setting the movie entirely in the small apartment and by the astonishingly natural performance of Ms. Del Carmen, you feel, smell, and know this movie like it was a fever dream. You want to give Laura a big hug at the end. Not for the squeamish or near squeamish.