ENNUI MIGRATES SOUTH
A hilariously deadpan black- and-white slacker comedy, “Duck Season” is sort of like “Wayne’s World” directed by a Mexican Jim Jarmusch.
When 14-year-old Flama’s mom leaves Sunday morning, he and his buddy Moko want to do nothing more than play with Flama’s Xbox and down bottles of Coke.
Their first interruption comes when Rita (Danny Perea), an awkward adolescent neighbor, shows up to borrow the stove and to ineptly flirt with Moko (Diego Catano).
Meanwhile, Flama (Daniel Miranda) has gotten into a Mexican standoff with pizza deliveryman Ulises (Enrique Arreola).
Ulises refuses to leave when he arrives seconds after a delivery time limit with a pie, and Flama, who believes he’s entitled to a free pie, balks at paying.
Flama talks about his parents’ impending divorce – among the items they are battling over is a cheesy painting of ducks – and Moko wonders why he seems to be more attracted to Flama than to Rita.
Ulises confesses his failed career ambitions, while all four of them get high on marijuana brownies that the desperately lonely Rita has accidentally concocted to celebrate her 16th birthday.
Though his camera rarely moves, “Duck Season” director Fernando Eimbcke and his cast capture teen ennui in an entertainingly universal way.
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DUCK SEASON
[***] (Three stars)
A small-scale treat.
In Spanish with English subtitles. Running time: 85 minutes. Rated R (profanity, drug use). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Angelika.

