Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damián Alcázar) loses the money to pay for the musician, mayhem ensues. The film itself is made to look like a videotaping of the wedding, revealing who's responsible for the crime.
Direction
Rimoch's fake-videotape conceit builds delicious claustrophobia.
Acting
Damián Alcázar's sweating desperation is physically uncomfortable.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes polite Mexican social rituals.
Director
Ernesto Rimoch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s Mexican cinema's 'sex, drugs & rock en español' wave, though this one's all about middle-class respectability politics.
Rimoch allegedly shot the wedding reception in chronological order across a real 16-hour party, with actors genuinely exhausted by the end.
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