Southern Mexico. It's hot. An inferno. Here, like everywhere else, people are suffering and dying. In their homes, on the street. A young girl kills herself with a shotgun. An old man has a heart attack as he lies with a prostitute. A cock-fighter is accused of assaulting a bus. A man finds a dead body in the river. What do they have in common? They all appeared in La Nota Roja (The Red Page): the crime section of the local newspaper. Our hero, local crime reporter El Diablo ('The Devil'), is hot on the trail of all these calamities and more. Follow him as he goes about his work recording the crimes and tragedies of his people. It's shocking how much fun he has. Armed with a camera and a radio, shuttling around in a beaten-up black beetle, Diablo could appear anywhere, and at any time, ready to ferry the Dead and the wounded away to a very public purgatory. How does he do it? Featuring a scorching original soundtrack of wild west-style cumbias, El Diablo y La Nota Roja is both an intimate portrayal of a society's attitude to death and a surreal road movie through the underworld of Mexican crime news, seen through the eyes of El Diablo.
Official Selections at Monterrey, Mexico City, San Antonio, San Diego, and Guadalajara.
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Institutional: $200.00
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