Maru (Maria Deschamps) and Roman (Juan Pablo De Santiago) are a couple of rebellious 15 year olds, drawn to each other by a shared distrust and refusal of the adult world. They leave school and ostensibly run away, but secretly camp out on Roman’s rooftop, drink, listen to music and generally act out a time honoured pubescence. Meanwhile their respective parents get together to fret about their little ones… whereupon they drink, flirt and act much like teenagers themselves. –Twitch Film
The film plays like a love letter to Godard. Particularly paying homage to Breathless and Pierrot Le Fou. I liked most of it, it meandered a bit but so does Godard's films. As much it felt like a Mexican version of a Godard film, it still retained it's own flavor. Gerardo Naranjo definitely made good on the promise this film showed with Miss Bala. Can't wait to see more from this filmmaker.
Gerardo Naranjo’s “neo-melo” Miss Bala is a relentless portrait of a society of violence and corruption.
The first part of a video interview series from Cannes by myself and Ryland Walker Knight.
In his second film Voy a explotar (I'm Going to Explode, which premiered at Venice Mostra in 2009) Gerardo Naranjo paid a double, vibrant