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A multiple award winner and 2008 Cannes Film Festival selection, Amat
Escalante's Los Bastardos "looks and sounds very impressive" (Variety), and
makes an indelibly disturbing impact.
Like the rest of the day-laboring migrant workers who gather together
each morning on a southwestern American strip mall sidewalk, Jesus (Jesus
Moises Rodriguez) and Fausto (Rubén Sosa) struggle to get ahead in El Norte.
But when a callous gringo boss strands them in the middle of a community
that exploits them one minute and insults them the next, the two young men
cock their sawed off shotgun and calmly take a troubled housewife hostage in
her own home. "Why are you doing this?," asks Karen (Nina Zavarin), a
strung-
out and paranoid divorcee with little left to lose. "Por la dinero," replies
Jesus. Before
Los Bastardos reaches its shockingly violent climax, Jesus, Fausto, and
Karen will have mapped out a contemporary North American wasteland of
affectless, benumbed amorality far surpassing mere greed.
Co-produced by Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Battle in Heaven), Los
Bastardos plumbs the depths of human brutality with the same cool cinematic
certitude as the work of Michael Haneke and Bruno Dumont.
2008 Mexico/France/USA 90 min. Color In English and Spanish with
optional English subtitles
Letterboxed (2.35:1) Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
MANTARRAYA, TRES TUNAS and NODREAM CINEMA present LOS BASTARDOS
a film by AMAT ESCALANTE
JESUS MOISES RODRIGUEZ, RUBEN SOSA and NINA ZAVARIN
cinematography by MATTHEW UHRY
editing by AYHAN ERGURSEL and AMAT ESCALANTE
written by AMAT ESCALANTE and MARTIN ESCALANTE
associate producers MIGUEL BONILLA, MARCOS CLINE-MARQUEZ and CARLOS REYGADAS
produced by AMAT ESCALANTE and JAIME ROMANDIA directed by AMAT ESCALANTE
© 2008 TRES TUNAS MANTARRAYA PRODUCCIONES FONDO PARA LA PRODUCCION
CINEMATOGRAFICA DE CALIDAD - (FOPROCINE-MEXICO) - BAC FILMS - NODREAM CINEMA |
