Michel Franco’s Sundown opens with a shot of a gasping fish out of water. It’s upsetting in its casualness, a matter-of-fact gaze at the world’s capacity for cruel indifference. It’s also more than a tad obvious, which makes it an...
Michel Franco, despite his considerable gifts at staging and mounting tension, has not proven thus far to be the most intellectually thorough filmmaker, and though I largely like the work of his I’ve seen, I recognize the degree to which...
In movies and in life, a baby is a living collection of potential ticking time bombs. They are precious and also completely incapable of self-preservation. To turn your back on them for even a moment is to risk disaster. This...
