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Year of the Nail - poster

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The Slow Business of Going

Year of the Nail (Año uña) is a 2007 Mexican film written and directed by Jonás Cuarón. The film is told entirely through still photographs that the director took of his real life over the course of a year.

Plot
American college student Molly (Eireann Harper) is in Mexico to study Spanish. She wants to take advantage of the trip by visiting old ruins and focus on her photography during her free time, but she ends up tagging along with the other students who are only interested in partying.

Meanwhile, Diego (Diego Cataño), a teenage Mexican boy, falls in love with his cousin. He hurts his toenail one day during a soccer game while trying to impress her.

Molly returns to Mexico during her next break from school in order to photograph the ruins that she missed seeing on her previous trip. She rents a room from Diego's family and the two end up spending time together. Diego falls in love with Molly and the two develop a bond, going to the beach together as well as his grandmother's ranch, but never tells her his true feelings.

After Molly leaves, Diego secretly buys an airplane ticket to New York to visit her. He lies to his parents, saying that he is going to stay with friends for the weekend. When he arrives in New York he calls Molly and says that he is there accompanying his father on a business trip. She takes him to Coney Island and the two spend the day together.

Before he goes home to Mexico, Diego reveals to Molly that he was not really there with his father and that he had come to see her. She says that he is sweet but too young for her. Molly later returns to Mexico for a third time, still having never seen the ruins. She goes there alone but forgets to bring her camera.

Production
Jonás Cuarón was introduced to Chris Marker's film La Jetée, which famously consists almost exclusively of still photographs, by his girlfriend Eireann Harper. He was inspired to create a film in such a way and set out to do so. He began documenting everyday events in his life through photography, taking pictures of his friends and family, with the intention of putting them together after a year and making a story out of them. It was only after he had all his photographs that he began the write the story, collecting them into different scenes and then writing the dialog.

Cast

 * Eireann Harper as Molly
 * Diego Cataño as Diego