Drama/Mex (2006)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 14
Lovely visuals can't save Drama/Mex from its shaky camerawork and thematically uneven plot.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 7
Lovely visuals can't save Drama/Mex from its shaky camerawork and thematically uneven plot.
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For his sophomore effort, Drama/Mex, writer-director Gerardo Naranjo (Malachance) juxtaposes three back-to-back stories, set in the once lush and exclusive - now over-commercialized and garish - resort town of Acapulco, over the course of the same long, hot night. Naranjo mounts an experimental narrative structure, with each successive tale set backward in time just prior to the end of the last story - a "relay-style" structural experimentation that mirrors and recalls Fernando Mereilles's City
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Fernando Becerril
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Diana Garcia
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Miriana Moro
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Juan Pablo Castaneda
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Emilio Valdés
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Drama/Mex has flashy style but puppetlike characters and unconvincing stories.
Top CriticThis relentlessly downbeat portrait of numerous troubled characters is ultimately too derivative and familiar for it to connect with art house audiences despite some effective moments and good performances by its mainly youthful cast.
Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
Drama/Mex can't see past its nihilistic little nose.
All the edgy style in the world canâ(TM)t camouflage a black hole. Drama/Mex turns loose these insistently shallow characters and provides no insight into their bad behavior.
There may be nothing moral or especially original about this movie, but it's got life in it.
This morally-ambiguous adventure's cleverly-concealed, parallel powder keg plotlines are sufficiently compelling to keep you riveted to these loco losers' predicaments till the bitter end.
[Director Gerardo] Naranjo seems to be onto something, even if he doesn't quite get it right this time out.
The murky melodrama's vicarious perversions may set a dubious new low standard in cinema - gross-out tragedy.
Drama/Mex has an overheated plot, but it plays out at a low boil, mainly because Naranjo is more interested in the subtle stresses of human interaction than in shrill desperation.
This morally-ambiguous adventure's cleverly-concealed, parallel powder keg plotlines are sufficiently compelling to keep you riveted to these loco losers' predicaments till the bitter end.
It is just too bad that the location is far more evocative than the drama itself.
The turgid pace and shaky camerawork, both seemingly a deliberate style, evaporate whatever cinema-geek enjoyment there might have been.
A Mexican drama set in Acapulco that revolves around flimsily drawn characters who fail to elicit our empathy.
Writer/director Naranjo is a talent worth keeping an eye on -- provided he can find his own idiom and less predictable subject matter. And it's impossible to take your eyes off the ravishing Garcia in her debut.
'Drama/Mex' fails to supply motivation for or roundness to its unappealing inhabitants, and its two stories lack any reflection to one another.
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