Winner of a Special Jury
Remy Award at the
fearlessly independent
WorldFest Houston 2021
Best Female Directing
in Feature Film
Mónica in
Oklahoma Mon Amour
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Oklahoma Mon Amour portrays a ruptured family and the quest for its reunion, the journey of two brothers, the challenges faced by multicultural youth needing to find their true identity and to unveil buried secrets, all of this tinted by the puzzling closeness between Mexico and the U.S.
Filmed in black and white and with a structure that interweaves fiction and real events evoking poetic and reflective art-house films from the sixties and seventies, the film also references current world tensions, and presents an unusual approach to the Mexico/U.S dynamics, also showing a cosmopolitan Mexico City seldom seen in cinema.
"On the surface, Oklahoma Mon Amour is an unapologetic intellectual film, but what makes it such a joy to watch is its direct line to our hearts and our skins. It transforms the places that it depicts into emotions and sensations."
Celestino Deleyto
Nico in Mexico City
Leam in Oklahoma
Sebastián on the road
Meet the supporting characters...
Paige sings "Flavor Blonde," written
and interpreted by Katie Williams
From album Force of Nature
Sebastián on the road, from Oklahoma to Mexico
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and then
Sebastián at his arrival in Mexico City
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MEET THE ACTORS
OKLAHOMA MON AMOUR POSTER
CREW & CREATIVE TEAM
OMAR GARCÍA
DANNY MARTÍNEZ
MATT SKUTTA
AMBER HANDY
MICHAEL SLEMMONS
HEIDI HILTS
MIKE WEST
MARCELO RIOSECO
SYDNE RAIN GRAY
CLAUDIA CAVALLIN
AMY MIMS
ARTURO GUTIÉRREZ PLAZA
ARTHUR DIXON
LEN JEFFRIES
CALEB KNOWLES
SPECIAL THANKS
ARMANDO GARCÍA YAÑEZ
ROGELIO ALMEIDA MÁRQUEZ
TODD GREENLEE
ALEX GREENLEE
LORI DILLON
ROBERT LEMON
DAVID SLEMMONS
ENRIQUE GIORDANO
ELEONORA RUEDA
SEBASTIAN EFLER
ARTURO GUTIERREZ PLAZA
ALESSANDRO PESCE / PESCE FAMILY
and
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA:
The College of Arts and Sciences
The College of International Studies
The Arts and Humanities Forum
The Film and Media Studies Department
CAROLINA RUEDA, DIRECTOR
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ORIGINAL SCORE
GEOFFREY BURCH SEBASTIAN EFLER
Oklahoma is the place that ultimately connects the Gaertners, a family separated by a brutal tragedy. A tragedy that, like an explosion, ripped them apart, leaving each one of them in solitude in the barren flatlands of Oklahoma, the busy streets of Mexico City, and a "brilliantly clean and tidy cage" in London.
While Sebastian's journey might decipher the past and alleviate their settled-in despair, Nico's obsessive inner thoughts keep him –and the viewer– aware of a reality, beyond the fiction, that parallels the space in which this film exists.