Alfonso Cuarón and Fernando Eimbcke, Duck Season

A quirky black-and-white movie set entirely in an apartment in Mexico City with basically four characters: three teenagers and the pizza delivery guy. That's the deal for Duck Season, the Spanish-language discovery by the boyish-looking writer-director Fernando Eimbcke. A movie with a rare wisdom about the complexities of growing up, this unknown's talent was impressive enough to convince Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabhan and Y Tu Mama Tambien director Alfonso Cuaron to take Duck Season under his wing - much like Martin Scorsese does with imports he admires - and "present" it to American audiences. The duo, whose easy rapport is obvious, tried to speak mostly in English for the interview. Mostly, they succeeded (27 minutes).

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