Deseo

Deseo (2013) — watch online this Mexican drama anthology from director Antonio Zavala Kugler on iFILM. Eight short stories set across the colonial streets and modern neighbourhoods of Mexico City, each one a collision between people from different social worlds — a schoolgirl and a merchant, a sailor and a sex worker, a wealthy woman and a stranger from a different life.

The film works as a circular structure: characters brush past each other between episodes, and the ending loops back to the opening. Edith González, Paola Núñez and Leonor Varela anchor the ensemble, bringing credibility to encounters that are written with a mix of dry humour and frank eroticism. Nobody in this city is quite what they seem from the outside.

What distinguishes Deseo from a simple erotic anthology is its refusal to pass judgment. The attraction between people across class lines is treated as ordinary — complicated, sometimes absurd, but not scandalous. Stream Deseo (2013) online on iFILM.