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  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 33 m
Drama/Mex

Summary 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 o...

Directed By: Gerardo Naranjo

Written By: Gerardo Naranjo

  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 33 m

Drama/Mex

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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 o...

Directed By: Gerardo Naranjo

Written By: Gerardo Naranjo

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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80
"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
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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75
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.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
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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63
Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
60
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
Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Canana Films, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), Cinematografica Revolcadero
Release Date Jul 11, 2007
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Your misery is my joy.
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Awards

Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 1 Nomination

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