Keep Coming Back (Siempre vuelven) 👏, dir. Sergio de León, 2025, Uruguay/Argentina, 91 min., in Spanish with English subtitles
⚠️ content advisory: homophobic language
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 6:00 pm Roxie Theater
🇺🇸 U.S. premiere
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| Keep Coming Back (Siempre vuelven) |
Emilio’s mother recently passed away, leaving him with a flock of racing pigeons. The only hope of keeping the pigeons (and not having a “pigeon barbecue”) is to enter a bird in a race and hope to finish at least in the top three. Along for the journey is his mother’s boyfriend, who sings to the pigeon to give it the courage of a World War II hero pigeon named Winkie, who single-handedly (single-wingedly?) saved hundreds of human soldiers. Emilio also passes the time with the periodic gay orgy in his small town.
Okay, I’m guessing that at this point, most readers are either intrigued or moving on to something else. Whichever your reaction, I say, go with it. Keep Coming Back (Siempre vuelven) is a coming-of-age story with some of the most surreal trappings of any film you’re likely to find. It’s beautifully told, with fine performances from Emilio (Bruce Pintos, pictured left), Juan (Juan Wauters, pictured right), and Winkie (pictured center). If the weirdness of the premise hasn’t already scared you off, you will probably be charmed by this film. Highly recommended, but a must see for film students.
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