As the holiday festivities draw to an end, Don Eme and Dona Carmen’s visiting grown children kiss them goodbye and the old couple, now well into their ‘90s, start counting down the days until the next holiday when the family will visit once again. For Dona Carmen, the holidays couldn’t come soon enough, as she frequently muses how quiet and lonely their apartment feels with just the two of them there.
A moving and universal love story, One Day Less explores what it means to grow old with the one you love. Filmmaker Daniela Ludlow Deloya, who is also the couple’s granddaughter, captures in a quietly observational, verité manner intimate moments of their daily routine, from amusing squabbles at the breakfast table to their silently holding hands. Sunrises and sunsets off the gorgeous Acapulco beach seen from their balcony provide poetic interludes, marking the time between their quotidian adventures, such as solo trips to the doctor’s, from which they always return tired and surprised that their fragile bodies are not always in sync with their saucy spirits. –Los Angeles Film Festival
