Lila Aviles’ debut film The Chambermaid (La Camarista) starts out strongly by introducing a quiet, mousy Eve that dutifully cleans, scrubs and organizes one messy luxurious hotel room after another. Immediately, the viewer feels like one is peering... Read Article
Renowned Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas’ latest feature Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) is a 3-hour study of a modern relationship gone awry. The celebrated director has said that Our Time is about marriage and love, “about the contradictions of... Read Article
In his latest film Extraño pero verdadura (Strange But True, 2017), Michel Lipkes tells the story of two young lovers, Jonathan and Yesi, who work on a rubbish truck, and their fellow workmates, Maestro Limpio (Master Clean) and... Read Article
Desierto’s title sequence promises much. Grandiose, panoramic photography introduces the desert as a vast lunar world in which human life seems alien, and utterly insignificant: an entirely appropriate setting for a film about illegal immigrants desperately trying to... Read Article
The 73rd annual Golden Globes Awards generated a buzz as the greatest works of film and television of 2015 were announced on January 10th. It was a particularly successful evening for Mexico, with Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu... Read Article
Mexico is a country of rich and strange folklore packed with terrible legends of the supernatural and the fanciful; syncretic traditions that mix a horror from an older age with the fervour of the present day. Sounds and... Read Article
Opening in a menacing jungle darkness, hissing acid and eyes among the trees, hooded men cook methamphetamine. The scrubland chemicals fizz as they chew over their occupation: “we know what we do causes harm in the United States”.... Read Article
Güeros (Mexican slang for a person with light hair) is the new film from Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios that has recently enchanted audiences at the BFI London Film Festival. The film can be divided into three sections that... Read Article
This week, the annual multi-platform East End Film Festival (EEFF) will return for its fifteenth year in the capital, with more than eighty feature films set to be screened at various venues in London’s East End over a... Read Article
This time almost exactly one year ago, journalists at Cannes were still reeling from the screening of Amat Escalante’s gut-wrenching Heli, which premièred on the opening night of the festival. The film examines the impact of the drug... Read Article
The LOCO London Comedy Film Festival is coming to town from the 23rd until the 26th of January and it will bringing with it a fine selection of Mexican comedies. Friday night will be the UK premiere of... Read Article
Cinema has always played a major role in the dissemination of political understanding and in developing a collective memory of past events. The widespread accessibility, popularity, and ability to relate complex political systems to realistic situations with which... Read Article
