Through the eyes of the night watchman, we enter into the world of “El Jardin,” a cemetery in the drug heartland of Mexico. Since the war on drugs began in 2007, the cemetery has doubled in size and some of its mausoleums have been built to resemble gaudy cathedrals, creating a skyline that looks like a fantastical surrealist city more than a resting place for the deceased. Through her quiet, observational style, Natalia Almada (The General) introduces us to both the lives of the cemetery workers and the families of the victims; here, the guilty and the innocent, the powerful and the powerless, intersect in the shadow of an increasingly bloody conflict that has claimed nearly 35,000 lives. El velador is a film about violence without violence. –New Directors / New Films
Declaration of War (Valérie Donzelli, France) — Opening Night, Critics' Week It’s a love story, an action and war movie
We begin again with Andrew Schenker in Slant: "If the early films of Jia Zhangke employed a rigorous fixed-take aesthetic to pin his dead-end
from Milwaukee Film Festival 2011 Documentaries
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