Puerto Vallarta News

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‘Timeshare’ or a nightmare vacation

Mexican director Sebastián Hofmann watched videos on YouTube for hours that told the horrible experiences of tourists when they purchased vacation packages. Tiempo Compartido (Eng: Timeshare), his second movie, is inspired by everything he saw: harassment, abuse, and absurd situations. The film shows the case of Pedro -interpreted by Luis Gerardo Méndez- a middle-class family man who, when buying a stay in a Timeshare in Mexico, gets everything except the vacation he dreamed of.

"We set out to make an anguishing and somewhat claustrophobic film, in the sense that the entire film happens inside this hotel. And . . .

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