REVIEWS
“Backed by excellent performances and stylishly composed images...Mendez's coolly scathing satire of Peru's upper classes conveys the anguished hollowness beneath shallow spirituality and material extravagance.” -
Museum of Modern Art
“A terrific, ambitious film.” -
We Are Movie Geeks
“Boasting bright performances, colorful images from cinematographer Mario Bassino and a sharp line in social comment... Mendez avoids being heavy-handed in his satire, choosing to let the excesses of his characters speak for themselves.” -
The Hollywood Reporter
"Featuring beautiful cinematography by Mario Bassino, 'Dioses' is an intelligent slice-of-life portrait of the shallow, materialistic relationships among the Peruvian upper class, a socially conscious depiction of the vapid emptiness of connection they have with each other, themselves, and the real world." -
This Week In New York
“Beautifully photographed, the movie introduces American viewers to a new world, cinematically speaking, that nevertheless is strangely familiar, in a Bret Easton Ellis way: The ultra-rich of suburban Lima, who inhabit magazine-layout-like modern homes that overlook the ocean, where restless, pampered wives gather for book clubs, botany classes and New Agey religious meetings while their bored and jaded children do drugs, dance to techno and engage in casual sex [...] The best film to date in this summer's ‘Global Lens’ series. “-
The Bloodshot Eye
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Best Film, BIARRITZ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best Peruvian Feature; FX Design Audience Award, LIMA FILM FESTIVAL
Latin Horizons Section, SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Vanguard Program, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
DAKINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
CUBA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
TROMSO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LATINA FILM FESTIVAL
FESTIVALISSIMO MONTREAL
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
URUGUAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
CHICAGO LATIN FILM FESTIVAL
WARSAW LATIN FILM FESTIVAL
FILMFEST MUENCHEN
TAIPEI FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
QUITO FILM FESTIVAL
SANTIAGO FILM FESTIVAL
CHUNGMURO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN SEOUL
PACIFIC MERIDIAN FESTIVAL
RIO DE JANEIRO FILM FESTIVAL
OSNABRUCK FILM FESTIVAL
BRAUNSCHWEIG FILM FESTIVAL
PERUFEST
PORTLAND LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
GASPARILLA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FILM FESTIVAL
PANTALLA LATINA - LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IN ST. GALLEN
National Award for Distribution, Promotion and Exhibition, CONACINE (PERU’S NATIONAL FILM INSTITUTE)
Golden Sun Award, BIARRITZ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best Sound, HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL
