Pérez Rodríguez

The debut film from Dominican director Humberto Tavárez, Pérez Rodríguez is a delightful, moving, and funny satire of both the family institution and the Dominican middle class. With a narrative structure reminiscent of Four Weddings and a Funeral, the film tackles blood ties, national identity, delusions of grandeur, and social hypocrisy with raw, dark humor. 

Carlos, Cristina, and Carmen are the Pérez Rodríguez siblings, a middle-class family whose lives are turned upside down by their father’s death. Amid three family gatherings—a birth, a funeral, and a birthday—a half-brother their father had outside of marriage reappears. Contacted by his father years ago, he now controls the will and the family inheritance. This revelation unleashes secrets, resentments, and confrontations that will test the true value of their family bonds.