The generally hopeless lot of Mexico's poor is closely examined in this tragic melodrama. In the story, Lolo is a seventeen-year old man with a job at a foundry. The foundry job doesn't pay much, but it's something. However, when he is robbed and beaten so badly that he must go to the hospital, the foundry fires him for his absence. When he gets ...
This second feature from writer-director Francisco Athie (Lolo) carries a stylish cyber-candescence throughout, courtesy of techno-twists added by production designer Chu Uroz (cables, surveillance cameras, TV monitors, and other electronic gear). Athie's tense politico-thriller begins with a trade-union chief's murder. His Brazilian mistress ...
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