β Scribed by Jorge Comensal
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A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City
RamΓ³n Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life disintegrates after cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech.
Jorge Comensal's The Mutations is a comedy tracing the metastasis of RamΓ³n's cancer through his body and through the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed in its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge-eating, respectively. RamΓ³n's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes RamΓ³n's tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then Elodia, RamΓ³n's pious...
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