Bruno Razo's 'Six Months in a Pink & Blue Building'
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- Bruno Santamaría Razo makes his first narrative feature, drawing on his personal memory of his father’s HIV diagnosis when he was 11.
- Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building follows 11‑year‑old Bruno (Jade Reyes) at a birthday party where guests dress as the opposite gender, as he discovers a tender attraction to his friend Vladimir while his father Mundo receives an abnormal HIV test result.
- Jade Reyes portrays Bruno, idolizing his illustrator father and seeking to inherit his watercolors.
- Sofía Espinosa plays mother Diana, who pragmatically prepares for a future that may not include her husband after his diagnosis.
- Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building uses a lush, technicolor palette for the boy’s fantasy world and a stark, muted palette for the parents, visually contrasting the emotional tones of queer discovery and illness.
Why it matters: Director Bruno Santamaría Razo benefits from his first narrative feature debut, which expands representation in queer Mexican cinema and encourages similar stories, potentially opening doors for future LGBTQ+ filmmakers.
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