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will screen daily until Thursday, July 24th (originally showed July 11-17, 2003) (Mexico, 35mm, 120 min.) In Spanish, WITH English subtitles New DAILY SCREENING TIMES: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, & 9:40 PM ** Starring Damian Alcazar (El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Bajo California, Men With Guns) & Pedro Armendariz (El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Original Sin) ** MARVELOUS! HILARIOUS! Estrada directs with black-humored exhuberance along with daredevil visual panache. This is "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' as rewritten by Bertold Brecht." - The New York Times ** "In Mexico, it may not be news when the bad guy wins a real-life election. But in the movies, when the bad guy wins, it creates a national scandal." - Washington Post ** "Art imitates life in scathing film on Mexico leaders" - The Christian Science Monitor ** "The Comedy that scandalized Mexico!" ** Back in San Diego for a limited engagement, One week only! San Diego's first chance to see this film WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES! ** The most honored film in Mexican history. ** Sundance Film Festival 2000 - Best Latin American Film ** Winner of 10 Ariel Awards, Mexico 2000 (Best Actor, Best Director, Best Writer) An audience favorite at the 2000 Cine Mexicano Film Series & 2001 San Diego Latino Film Festival. Luis Estrada directs this groundbreaking and extremely controversial satire about Mexico's long-ruling political party, the PRI. Set in the late 1940s in the remote, thoroughly backwards village of San Pedro de los Saguaros, the film focuses on Vargas (Damian Alcazar), a petty politician who had the dubious honor of being appointed town mayor after his predecessor was decapitated for corruption by an angry mob. At first, he tries to balance the books and to bring the 20th century to the backwaters. When he is visited by slick PRI politico Lopez (Pedro Armendariz), however, he learns the officially sanctioned way of running the town: at gunpoint while pilfering the bank vaults. Soon Vargas becomes a power-mad despot, more than willing to steal or kill to further his goals. Though his PRI bosses try to reign him in, the lynch mob soon appears to be the inevitable end of Vargas' political career. The first film to criticize the PRI by name, Estrada's bitter farce savages the ruling party, the church and U.S. intervention. Cult director Alex Cox plays a small role as a seedy gringo..
Herod's Law director Luis Estrada was born in Mexico City in 1962. He has worked in the film industry since he was 15 years old, working along side various noted Mexican filmmakers, including his father, José Estrada. Luis' short films include La divina Lola (1982) and Vengeance is mine (1984). In 1995 he produced Luces de la noche. As producer, writer, editor and director, his feature films include Long Way to T.J. (Camino largo a Tijuana, 1990), Bandits (Bandidos, 1991), Amber (Ambar,1997) and Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes).
Location: Madstone Movie Theaters (7510 Hazard Center Drive in Mission Valley) Tickets: $8 General Admission / $6 Students, Seniors & "Aficionado del Cine Latino" Members (click here)
Rated R. For Mature audiences only. Distributed by: Julio Noriega Sponsors for Cinema en Tu Idioma include:
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