Rowe’s Leap Year to expand in Mexico
Australian ex-pat Michael Rowe’s Camera d’Or-winning film Año Bisiesto (Leap Year) surpassed expectations for its release in its native country,
“Año Bisiesto was a big hit at the box office on its opening weekend. More copies will be distributed; thanks to everyone who saw it,” said Rowe.
In an editorial for the newspaper El Universal, Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal – who was part of the Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and whose distribution company Canana is releasing the film – urged people to see Leap Year:
Perhaps one of the best answers to one of the hardest questions about cinema pertains to our times and the overwhelming structure of a shopping centre: What is the difference between an art house film and entertainment? The answer triggers an aphorism: “An art house film is that which lasts beyond the parking lot on the way home”.
