2026 Sarasota Film Festival
Pet Shop Days [FLORIDA PREMIERE]
Film: Pet Shop Days
Narrative, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A riveting portrait of lost young men in search of connection in this story of the whirlwind romance between Alehandro, a Mexican immigrant and Jack, a pet shop worker, whose activities drag them into a dead-end world of passion, drugs and depravity in the backstreets of New York City.
Directed by Olmo Schnabel

Screening Details
Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM EDT
Ends 9:50 PM EDT
Regal Hollywood screen #7
About This Event
Florida Premiere. In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro (Dario Yazbek Bernal) flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, he ends up in New York City. There, he meets Jack, a pet store worker whose own, similarly wealthy family life is fracturing after his father (Willem Dafoe) betrays his mother (Emmanuelle Seigner). Together, the two young men enter a whirlwind romance, sending them into a dead-end world of passion, drugs, and depravity.With Pet Shop Days, first-time feature director Olmo Schnabel, son of artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, has crafted a gritty throwback to American independent cinema. (No wonder Martin Scorsese signed on as an executive producer.) Imbued with raw emotion and propulsive pacing and led by an explosive performance by Bernal (Gaelโs half-brother) as the wild and wounded Alejandro, Pet Shop Days is a riveting portrait of lost young men in search of connection.
Cast
Jack Irving, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe
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