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 (Gael’s half-brother) as the wild and wounded Alejandro,Pet Shop Days is a riveting portrait of lost young men in search of connection.
Marie Savare, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Gabriele Moratti, Alex Coco, Olmo Schnabel, Galen Core
Executive Producer:
Martin Scorsese, Marco Colombo, Michel Franco, Giovanni Corrado, Jeremy O. Harris, P.J. van Sandwijk, Raffaella Viscardi, Malcom Pagani, Moreno Zani, Livio Strazzera, Theo Niarchos, Aimone Ripa di Meana
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