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Drama/Mex

EMAILPRINTIFC Films

Drama/Mex reviews
65
9.5 User Score:

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Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Gerardo Naranjo

Directed by: Gerardo Naranjo

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 11, 2007

Running Time: 92 minutes, Color

Origin: Mexico

Language(s): Spanish

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Fernando Becerril, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Diana Garcia, Martha Claudia Moreno, Miriana Moro, and Emilio Valdés

Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in a resort town of Acapulco. The first involves Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover. Her current boyfriend must compete with the intense sexual tension that Fernanda and her ex-love share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions, attempting suicide in a beachfront hotel until a precocious and equally dishonest teenage girl disrupts his plans. (IFC Films)

What The Critics Said

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80

Village Voice Jim Ridley

"Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

You want to hate his characters? Go ahead. You want to feel sympathy for them? That's OK too. In either case, you'll be shaken by Drama/Mex.

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Staff (Not credited)

In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Iñárritu-style mélange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways.

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70

Variety Jay Weissberg

An unerring compositional eye plus firm control of an inventive structure keep Drama/Mex well within the attention span, even when the script wanders without seeming to know why.

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70

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Gerardo Naranjo's deliriously trashy Drama/Mex may not do much to burnish the international prestige of Mexican cinema, but it's an entertaining blend of obvious influences, from softcore cable-TV porn to Tarantino to "Less Than Zero" and "Leaving Las Vegas."

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.

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60

Los Angeles Times Sam Adams

Skipping from one story to another and scrambling their relative chronologies, Drama/Mex presents a flashy package, but that only reveals the paucity of its ideas.

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50

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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