Unmade Beds

With his startlingly visceral and original second feature, Unmade Beds, Alexis Dos Santos manifests an exuberant London where unbridled longing and zeal plunge nubile expats into lusty adventures and momentous encounters. When wide-eyed Spaniard Axl comes to London on a quest for the father who abandoned him, he lands in the middle of a creative hotbed—an underground polyglot squat filled with colorful free spirits. Among them is Vera, a beautiful Belgian girl recently dumped by her boyfriend, who seeks to restore her faith in romantic destiny after meeting a charismatic stranger. As Axl and Vera separately pursue these bittersweet and elusive connections, they circle each other's orbits—their fates almost inevitably intertwined.Alongside this lush story of youthful awakening, Dos Santos conjures a rhythmic stream-of-consciousness mood collage. Axl and Vera’s world vibrates with visual and sonic energy. The palate of yellows, reds, and greens emits benevolent warmth as if to soften the blow of their tender aches. Surprising sound scapes and an effusive score aptly express the characters’ mercurial interior states. Meanwhile slapstick moments and musical performances by fresh unknowns puncture the melancholy, buoying the film into irreverent whimsy. They may be slightly crumpled works in progress—like the unmade beds where they slumber—but Axl, Vera, and their friends are as vital as a crisp new day.
CAST
Deborah Francois, Fernando Tielve

Alexis Dos Santos - Alexis Dos Santos grew up in Patagonia. He studied architecture and acting in Buenos Aires before moving to London to train as a director at the National Film and Television School. He returned to Patagonia to make his debut feature. Glue premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, winning the MovieZone Award—the first of 15 international awards. Unmade Beds, his second film, was written under the auspices of a Cinefondation writing residency in Paris.

Screenings:

Fri. Jan 16 6:00 p.m. - UNMAD16EE Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Sat. Jan 17 12:45 p.m. - UNMAD17BD Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Tue. Jan 20 8:30 a.m. - UNMAD203M Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Thu. Jan 22 11:30 a.m. - UNMAD22LD Library Center Theatre, Park City