'Fauna' Review: This Elliptical Mexican Film Is a Study in Identity and Performance 'Fauna' Review: This Elliptical Mexican Film Is a Study in Identity and Performance Nicolás Pereda's latest film finds him and his actors toying with cultural tropes all too common in shows like 'Narcos: Mexico.' Manuel Betancourt, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 70 MIN. Courtesy of Toronto Film Festival “Fauna” is a curious proposition. On the surface, the ninth feature from Mexican-Canadian independent filmmaker Nicolás Pereda consists of a series of dialogue-driven scenes taking place in a remote Mexican village where an estranged brother and sister are visiting their parents. Yet such a description can’t quite capture the slippery nature of Pereda’s script, which slowly reveals itself as a clever study in performance and identity that mines its cringe comedy to poke fun at contemporary narconovelas and their grip on that country’s cultural imagination.