
Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions, attempting suicide in a beachfront hotel-until a ... (Full plot summary below)
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Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino 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 plan. They will all converge in a stark and harrowing portrayal of moral ambiguity.
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| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsThis 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. |
| Village VoiceJim Ridley"Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisDrama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what. |
| WBAI Web RadioPrairie MillerThe murky melodrama's vicarious perversions may set a dubious new low standard in cinema - gross-out tragedy. |
| Reel.comPam GradyIt is just too bad that the location is far more evocative than the drama itself. |
| NewsdayJan StuartDrama/Mex can't see past its nihilistic little nose. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt[Director Gerardo] Naranjo seems to be onto something, even if he doesn't quite get it right this time out. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)[Director Gerardo] Naranjo seems to be onto something, even if he doesn't quite get it right this time out. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergAn 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. |
| Film Journal InternationalFrank LoveceThe turgid pace and shaky camerawork, both seemingly a deliberate style, evaporate whatever cinema-geek enjoyment there might have been. |