Heli (2013)
Country: MEX/NL/GER/FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: Amat Escalante
Cast: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González
Synopsis:
A car factory employee has a brush with police corruption when his sister's boyfriend appropriates a stash of cocaine creamed off a public drugs burning.
Review:
Announcing itself from the off as an example of slow cinema, an assumption confirmed by the name of Carlos Reygadas on the closing credits, this harrowing crime film is freighted with the additional weight of a tense domestic drama, as both of its male victims are also presented as randy young men rebuffed by their womenfolk. In the end, exposé elements take a back seat to the more quotidian anxieties of life at the bottom of the socio-economic fishpond. An impressive piece of direction, but the blank stares of both filmed and filming ultimately commute to audience indifference.
Country: MEX/NL/GER/FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: Amat Escalante
Cast: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González
Synopsis:
A car factory employee has a brush with police corruption when his sister's boyfriend appropriates a stash of cocaine creamed off a public drugs burning.
Review:
Announcing itself from the off as an example of slow cinema, an assumption confirmed by the name of Carlos Reygadas on the closing credits, this harrowing crime film is freighted with the additional weight of a tense domestic drama, as both of its male victims are also presented as randy young men rebuffed by their womenfolk. In the end, exposé elements take a back seat to the more quotidian anxieties of life at the bottom of the socio-economic fishpond. An impressive piece of direction, but the blank stares of both filmed and filming ultimately commute to audience indifference.
Country: MEX/NL/GER/FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: Amat Escalante
Cast: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González
Synopsis:
A car factory employee has a brush with police corruption when his sister's boyfriend appropriates a stash of cocaine creamed off a public drugs burning.
Review:
Announcing itself from the off as an example of slow cinema, an assumption confirmed by the name of Carlos Reygadas on the closing credits, this harrowing crime film is freighted with the additional weight of a tense domestic drama, as both of its male victims are also presented as randy young men rebuffed by their womenfolk. In the end, exposé elements take a back seat to the more quotidian anxieties of life at the bottom of the socio-economic fishpond. An impressive piece of direction, but the blank stares of both filmed and filming ultimately commute to audience indifference.