DRUNKEN NOODLES
by Lucio Castro
USA, Argentina, 2025, 82'
By the director of END OF THE CENTURY (New Directors/New Films 2019) and AFTER THIS DEATH (Berlinale Special Gala 2025).
Over two summers, between city streets and forest paths, young art student Adnan has a series of unexpected intimate encounters
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. He begins interning at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once encountered is being exhibited. As moments from his past and present begin to intertwine, a series of encounters - both artistic and erotic - open cracks in his everyday reality.
Reviews
“well-observed and effortlessly sexy”
“Balmy, breeze-blown character study”
“Everything feels aptly and pleasingly on the fly in this portrait of will-o’-the-wisp living”
“Rarely has sexual frustration been explored with such poetry and imagination”
"Lucio Castro's superb film mixes erotic adventures and romantic misadventure”
“Surely the hottest title in this year’s ACID lineup”
“Like Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s, Castro’s films are becalmed—New York feels lazy and empty, all dappled summer light and birdsong, and he favours understated, deliberate performances”
“The film, infused with constant sexual tension, [has] a certain fluidity, playfulness, mystery, and openness to reverie—and at the same time, it has the simple charm and sensuality of a bowl of noodles”
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Festivals
World Premiere: Cannes - ACID 2025
Cast & Crew
With: Laith Khalifeh, Ezriel Kornel, Matthew Risch, Joél Isaac
Production company: Lucio Castro Inc. / Alsina 427
Producer: Lucio Castro, Barton Cortright
Coproducers: Joanne Lee, Julia Bloch
Lucio Castro
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lucio Castro earned a BFA from the Center for Film Experimentation in Buenos Aires before moving to New York to study at The New School. His debut feature, END OF THE CENTURY (Fin de siglo), premiered at New Directors/New Films at MoMA in 2019 and later screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, where it won the Best Film Award in the National Competition.
Castro’s second feature, AFTER THIS DEATH, based on an original script he wrote, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025. He also teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Film Program at NYU Tisch.
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