‘Sundown’ Film Review: Tim Roth Is an Enigma in Riveting and Banal Mexican Drama

Emilio Mayorga ​Daniela Leyva at La Mitad del Continente (“The Howls”), Andrea Toca at Mexico’s Un Beso Cine (“Human Animals”) and Diana Bustamante at Burning SAS (“Buy Me a Gun”) have teamed to co-produce the vampire drama “The Day is Long and Dark,” the eighth feature from one of Mexico’s most important directors, Julio Hernández Cordón.“Working with Julio has always been an enthralling experience.

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Inés Gómez Mont — perhaps most famous in the US for once proposing to Tom Brady — is currently on the run after allegedly embezzling millions of dollars!

EXCLUSIVE: Guido Rud’s Argentina and Spain-based sales outfit FilmSharks has scored a pair of deals on its slate with Korea buyers.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Leading Colombian network Caracol TV is in the works on an as yet untitled bioseries about Mexico’s iconic King of Rancheras, Vicente Fernandez. The production is a Netflix Original and will kick off production on Sept.

Eiza González , the Mexican actress and producer, is now preparing for one for the most complex acting challenges of her career. González will play Mexican icon María Félix in a biopic directed by Matthew Heineman.

Comfortable in his newly found friendship, Hatzín (Hatzín Navarrete), a teenager from Mexico City who traveled to Chihuahua’s northern state to reclaim his father’s remains, pretends to be upset and explains he’s decided to return home. He laughs several seconds later, tricking Mario (Hernán Mendoza), his boss and impromptu life mentor.

Jamie Lang The Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG) will close this October’s rescheduled in-person festival with the first two episodes of Netflix’s animated event series “Maya and the Three” from daytime Emmy-winning director Jorge Gutierrez (“The Book of Life,” “El Tigre”).“Having ‘Maya’ premier at my beloved FICG, in the capital of Mexican animation, is a dream come true!” Gutierrez told Variety after the announcement was made.FICG released details outlining the full program for this year’s

As was the case with the original “Narcos” series, it appears the spinoff, “Narcos: Mexico,” is calling it quits after three seasons. But judging by the new teaser for Season 3, “Narcos: Mexico” is going out with a bang.

Monday night's episode of .Pieper arrived to the beach with her sole focus on Brendan, whom she was linked to pre-Paradise. While Brendan assured Natasha Parker, his BiP love interest, that things were «casual» with Pieper before arriving in Mexico, that story fell apart when Pieper showed up.«Just a gentle reminder that reality TV isn't real,» Pieper wrote in her post. «An edited, produced, and cut down show isn't going to show you every single thing said and done.

Clint Eastwood received a star-studded tribute ahead of the release of his upcoming film "Cry Macho." Director Steven Spielberg along with actors Mel Gibson, Hilary Swank and others honored Eastwood, 91, in a featurette released by Warner Bros.

EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald and Anonymous Content have signed actress Cassandra Sanchez-Navarro in the United States.

 the night before.Pieper arrived to the beach with her sole focus on Brendan Morais, whom she was linked to pre-Paradise. While Brendan assured Natasha Parker, his BiP love interest, that things were «casual» with Pieper before arriving in Mexico, that story fell apart when Pieper showed up.«Just a gentle reminder that reality tv isn't real,» Pieper wrote in part. «An edited, produced, and cut down show isn't going to show you every single thing said and done.

After last year’s explosively angry New Order, the prolific Mexican director Michel Franco returns to the Venice Film Festival with Sundown, the minor-key story of a man who decides to abandon his life in favor of getting drunk and shacking up with a cheerful local woman in Acapulco. It is his second collaboration with British actor Tim Roth who plays Neil and who sinks into hazy irresponsibility with the ease of a backpacker who has mastered getting into a hammock.

Anyone familiar with the work of Mexican director Michel Franco, whether they be admirers or detractors, can attest to the “this is not going to end well” sentiment his sordid cinematic provocations instill. With a pensive angle, “Sundown” – a reteaming between the filmmaker and his “Chronic” star Tim Roth – upholds that tension of expecting the worst to come the characters’ way.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn the span of a year when everyone’s been on edge, prolific Mexican director Michel Franco managed to nuke our comfort zones not once, but twice, delivering separate provocations at back-to-back editions of the Venice Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Violence in Mexico was one of the dominant themes of the press conference for Michel Franco’s Venice competition title “Sundown” on Sunday, with the director and stars Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Iazua Larios in attendance.Set in the seemingly tranquil Mexican resort city Acapulco, Roth and Gainsbourg play members of a wealthy British family whose vacation there is cut short by a distant death and an existential crisis comes to the fore.