Writer/director Cristobal Krusen’s previous two films—Final Solution and Sabina K.–focus upon other people facing crises of values and faith, but his newest film—Let Me Have My Son—is a fictionalized story of his own spiritual journey that centers on his son’s descent into mental illness. He takes us on a surrealistic journey of a father visiting …
Sundown(2021)
A taciturn man lies & stays behind when in Mexico when his family returns to Mexico for their mother’s funeral so that he can be alone.
Mr. Pig (2016)
An old dying man travels to Mexico to give his pet pig a good home, but changes his mind & is joined by his estranged daughter to find a better home.
Blue Miracle (2021)
A man & orphans team up with a has-been boat captain in the hope of winning a fishing derby so they can save their orphanage.
Blue Miracle (2021)
In a fishing competition a has-been boat captain teams with the head of an orphanage & several boys to win the prize that will save them all.
Frida (2002)
Frida tells the story of the Mexican artist’s bizarre relationship with husband Diego Rivera, her pain filled life, Communist beliefs, and blind devotion to Joseph Stalin.
I, the Worst of All (1990)
The true story of the 17th century Mexican poet/nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz who ran afoul of the archbishop because of her writings championing the rights of women & popular plays regarded as too sexual.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
The US drug enforcement agents start a war among the Mexican drug lords by kidnapping the daughter of one of the most powerful, initiating a series of bloody encounters.
Coco (20170
A Mexican boy, against his family’s wishes wanting to be a musician, enters the realm of the dead on the Day of the Dead in a quest to fulfill his dream.
Sin Nombre (2009)
I wish every American would see this film about Honduran refugees. Click the image to read my entire review.