martes, 18 de enero de 2011

Cyrano Fernandez

Directed by Alberto Arvelo
Written by Alberto Arvelo
Starring Edgar Ramirez
Pastor Oviedo
Jessika Grau
Gledys Ibarra
Distributed by Indigo Media
Release date(s) 2007
Country Venezuela
Language Spanish

The movie is based on the romantic triangle between Cyrano (Edgar Ramirez), Cristian (Pastor Oviedo) and Roxanna (Jessika Grau) during the turbulent riots between a group of drug dealers and the neighbours of a shanty town in Caracas.
Cyrano, apart from being a romantic writer is also the social hero of his barrio, making an allusion to the leaders of the Tupamaro Movement.







Caracas love unto death

Original Title: Caracas amor a muerte

Director:

Gustavo Balza
This film deservedly won the Best Film award at the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival this year. It is the story of a young girl, Aixa, who gets pregnant by her boyfriend, a criminal sought after by the police. Her grandmother wants her to get an abortion, and convinces a young doctor to perform it, against the opposition of a local priest and Aixa's boyfriend. This is a great ensemble piece, with beautifully acted three-dimentional characters.
 

Dog eat dog (2008)

Original Title: Perro come perro

Director:

Carlos Moreno
 
 
In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.





 

Perdita Durango /dancing with the devil (1997)

Directed by Alex de la Iglesia
Produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez
Written by Barry Gifford
David Trueba
Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Alex de la Iglesia
Starring Rosie Perez
Javier Bardem
James Gandolfini
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Aimee Graham
Harley Cross
Alex Cox
Music by Simon Boswell
Cinematography Flavio Martínez Labiano
Editing by Teresa Font
Release date(s) 1997
Running time 126 minutes
Language English
Spanish

Rough girl Perdita and her demonic lover Romeo Dolorosa need humans to sacrifice following Romeo's religion before he can go on a mission ordered by mob boss Santos. They kidnap teen sweethearts Duane and Estelle and travel with them to Las-Vegas. 

Perdita (Rosie Perez) is a tough, no-nonsense lady clad in a Tura Satana-style black outfit. She meets Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), a maniacal criminal who also happens to be an even more maniacal witch doctor. Romeo robs a bank but risks getting caught in order to force the Bank Teller to strip her shirt and reveal her large breasts. Once in the street, he hides his face from the cops by grabbing and french kissing a random woman on the street. Crossing the border into Mexico together, Perdita and Romeo become lovers and partners in crime as they kidnap a random Caucasian teenage couple in order to sacrifice them. Along the way they also hijack a truckload of human fetuses and try to evade a determined Drug Enforcement Administration officer (James Gandolfini).
Prior to the sacrifice, Perdita mounts tied up Duane on a chair and rapes him under gunpoint. She talks all the way through and makes him reveal through a flashback that his only previous experience was being mounted by a buxom overweight girl. After Perdita is done, she forces Duane to watch as Estelle is being raped on a bed by Romeo, who tries to force an orgasm on her via a cunnilingus.
Perdita later tells off Romeo for deflowering the victim and thus hurt the sacrifice. They include Duane and Estelle in the vote of who shall get sacrificed. Duane and Estelle blame each other for enjoying their intercourse with their respective captor. Duane and Perdita convince Romeo to choose Estelle. Eventually, a group of people crash in, save Estelle and free Duane. Alas, after a car chase, Duane and Estelle are re-kidnapped.

Veteranos (1997)


Dyno and Crooked are surviving in the barrio any way they know how. When their homies end up gettting killed, they turn to the neighborhood veterano (Jesse Borrego) for help. Starring JESSE BORREGO ("Bound By Honor," "Mi Vida Loca," "24,"), CROOKED, DUKE, SIR DYNO, BOOTS (The Coup, Streetsweeper Social Club), LIL WYNO, LOW DOWN, DUB, ALG, OSO