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Insignificant Things

2008 · 98 min

A quiet, tender weave of small lives and kept objects, asking you to lean in and feel the ache of people unable to reach each other.

Directed by
Andrea Martínez
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Bárbara Mori, Fernando Luján, Carmelo Gómez
Overview
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.

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Directed by
Andrea Martínez
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Bárbara Mori, Fernando Luján, Carmelo Gómez
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • love
  • family
  • identity
  • memory
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, family
Directed by
Andrea Martínez
Written by
Andrea Martínez
Starring
Bárbara Mori, Fernando Luján, Carmelo Gómez, Lucía Jiménez, Paulina Gaitán, Blanca Guerra, Dolores Heredia, Arturo Ríos
Music
Jacobo Lieberman, Leonardo Heiblum
Cinematography
Josep M. Civit
Runtime
98 min
Country
Mexico, Spain
Languages
Spanish

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