synopsis

In his directorial debut, Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries) plays Cristobal, a pleasant, complacent rich kid who appears to have everything at his fingertips: wealth, a place at Harvard Business School, a girlfriend and popularity.

At his father's weekend house, Cristobal plays host to a group of friends, one of whom has brought along Dolores, an Argentinian beauty he hopes to seduce.
However, over the course of one increasingly disastrous day, Cristobal's cool certainties are utterly dismantled.

In the style of Larry Clark's Kids, Gael Garcia Bernal's Deficit is a searing look at youth and the divisions of class and race in Mexican society.