Crustaceans

A quiet, melancholy drift through public protest and private heartbreak, blending real crowds with invented lives into a soft, aching blur.

Directed by

Vicente Pérez Herrero

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Starring

Mario Zorrilla, Marisol Membrillo, Juan Carlos Vellido

Tagline

Without a fight.

Overview

The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is a matter of reflection on an instance in life with the social-economical crisis as a landscape. The heartbreak in times of crisis. The film was filmed as demonstrations in the streets against crisis and social welfare cuts took place. For two years, it filmed street demonstrations and incorporated actors in the social landscape. The result, is a film in which the collective and the intimate come together. Both the characters and the people in the street, like identical crustaceans, take to the street to express their shame and rage for what is happening and try to find a solution. A time of anxiety, uncertainty and protest that conforms the landscape in which the characters, such as crustaceans hide their wounds under their hard shell is seen.

How it feels

Melancholic, bleak, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, class, politics, grief

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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