PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews José Pablo Escamilla, director of the film Mostro.
At the Cineasti del Presente Competition, at the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, the young director José Pablo Escamilla brings his Monster, a film that wants to shed light on a serious problem in Mexico: a generation in disarray, trapped in reality without prospects, in a society where, literally, disappearing is the order of the day.
Monster : A couple of teenage factory workers spend their afternoons consuming chemical substances in a self-constructed shack. The ecstatic trips and the visions they experience make them forget their noisy industrial city life for a moment. But when Alexandra disappears right before his eyes, Lucas must deal with a corrupted system. His visions decay, just like the monster that imprisons them.