Alan’s daily life as a driver and assistant to a federal deputy entails enduring the anger and arrogance of his superior; sufering the contempt of the deputy’s bodyguards and, above all, cleaning up all traces of his boss’ misbehaviour. Today, however, Alan has decided that things will be different.
Acting
Noé Hernández's simmering, wordless resentment.
Direction
Grau's claustrophobic framing of power dynamics.
Director
Jorge Michel Grau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jorge Michel Grau made waves with cannibal family thriller 'We Are What We Are' (2010) before this quieter political horror.
Shot during Mexico's 2012 election cycle; the 'animated scene' was Grau's workaround for depicting real political violence the production legally couldn't show.
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