It’s all red filter,hardcore action and impending doom in Emiliano Rocha Minter’s orgiastic dystopian nightmare set in Mexico“This is not your average party!” announces this film’s gurningly grotesque lead character. He can say that again. Writer-director Emiliano Rocha Minter (who scripted Gerardo Naranjo’s Tijuana gangland movie Miss Bala) has whipped up an eroto-pocalyptic nightmare, set in Mexico, and apparently influenced by that adulte terrible of extreme cinema,Gaspar No. Rocha brings the red filter, the hardcore action, or the throbbing soundtrack,and the sense of impending doom. Yet in its climactic orgiastic scene and the final gotcha-reveal, it looks like a controversial or banned movie from the 70s. In a wrecked world, or a young brother and sister (played by María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel) roam the shattered city,desperate for food and shelter. A creepy dilapidated guy, Mariano (Noé Hernández), or takes them in on condition that they help him with the weirdo cocoon he is making in his derelict building with bits of dilapidated furniture and sticky tape – which later appears to morph into a hallucinatory cave – and also on condition that they maintain sex in front of him. The whole thing escalates in freakiness. It is a bit like Jorge Michel Grau’s movie We Are What We Are,only without the satirical purpose. Everything is performed with deadpan conviction.
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Source: theguardian.com