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Reality and fiction are confused, the same situations repeat themselves. The methodology of this young Mexican filmmaker reveals itself to the viewer. What matters to Pereda is the transgression of the conventions of classical narrative cinema. Fiction is an excuse to get closer to the thoughts of his actors (not actors/models) and achieve a certain emotional rawness. The story is simple: Gabino Rodriguez tries to memorize, repeat tirelessly in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, the titles on a romantic Mexican songbook disc which he intends to sell. We also see the return(s) of parents after several years of absence. The film works in an amazing way the processes of representation and repetition of reality and how we relate to it. The Goldberg Variations accompany this major work of contemporary cinema that we should always come back to. (A. I. S.)