Emiliano lives in a small mining town in Mexico. Driven by a deep sense of justice, he seeks those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother.

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Subtitles:French

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A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

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Amat Escalante’s “The Untamed” is a movie about that beast called lust, specifically the way it can be equally irresistible, all-consuming, and dangerous. That very beast is portrayed, as the unflinching Mexican filmmaker is wont to do, by a tentacled creature that came from space. In a way that seems both inspired and completely separate from the niche world of tentacle porn, “The Untamed” creates its narrative around human beings and their need for pleasure, but not always from this monster. It’s a low-key trippy sci-fi movie about booty calls with an unwieldy space squid, but I wish I could say it was much more than that.

The main human beings of this story are Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) and Angel (Jesus Meza), a married couple who have two children and very elementary sex, as we see in an opening sequence where spooning turns into something just a tiny bit more (and with no eye contact). It’s revealed early on that Angel’s mind is more on Alejandra’s handsome doctor brother Fabian (Eden Villavicencio). We see Angel and Fabian steal away from a raucous bar to make love one night, but learn that they have two different perspectives on their desires; Angel, a blue collar construction worker, is completely closed off with his true desires, boiling up his aggressions into violent sexual text messages to Fabian, who is a bit more open despite the horrific homophobia in their community.

Now, about that squid. The squid is brought into their lives by Veronica (Simone Bucio), a new friend of Fabian’s who creates her own connection with Alejandra as the story moves along. It exists inside an empty room house in the middle of the woods, as monitored by an older married couple who understand its potential, good and bad. It has the ability to provide euphoric pleasure, as we see in an opening scene with Veronica. But just like something as profound as love, it has the same ability to hurt its partners, like with the large cut Veronica has on her side, which she tells Fabian is that of a rabid dog. Veronica passes the idea of the squid along to Fabian, and later to Alejandra, with wholly erotic and violent results.

In a way that parallels a few of the film’s squid passages, “The Untamed” evolves into a not-so-revelatory story about sexual repression with Angel succumbing to the homophobia of his community. Eventually it becomes a type of family drama, where Angel becomes a type of hammy monster that is outcasted by locals and family members, and “The Untamed” reaches its lowest, weakest points when it should be building up to some type of can’t-look-away climax. There’s even a domestic scuffle between Angel and Alejandra, after she learns the secret of Angel and her brother, which Escalante treats with the bland accompaniment of opera music.

For all of the strangeness to its concept, and the way that the movie kicks off with ominous vibes and bizarre disjointed imagery straight out of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” “The Untamed” offers neither a key slow burn or some atmosphere of which to be consumed by. The squid, its mysterious presence and all, becomes a mere, direct reflection for people’s own pursuit of pleasure, particularly as something to distract them from their own unhappiness. All the while, the movie and its non-space characters fade as their emotions in this strange course of events seem slight.

For anyone who saw Escalante’s previous movie, the searing drama “Heli” which won Steven Spielberg’s jury prize at Cannes in 2015 while including an unbroken shot of a man’s penis being set on fire, “The Untamed” registers as a type of disappointment, even though it proves that Escalante’s values for shocking imagery is primed for stories that hardly share visual similarities. But even on its own, “The Untamed” seems disjointed, a series of some striking images (a slow zoom to extreme close-up on Alejandra’s crotch while she lays in a dress, a CGI animal orgy fitting for a “Noah” porn remake) that make this an unproductive type of head-scratcher. With its most unusual aspects played relatively straightforward, the questions of “The Untamed” involve more of what works and what doesn’t, instead of anything to be unpacked.

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From IMDb

Love story between a young girl and a police man, both of them had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This will create a conflict that love will try to overcome.

Heli (Armando Espitia), the protagonist of Amat Escalante’s 2013 Palme d’Or nominee of the same name, is a young Mexican who lives with his father, his son, his young wife (Linda Gonzalez) and 12-year-old sister, Estella (Andrea Vergara). He’s prone to bad luck, keen on his naps and, when a census taker comes to the house, hesitates about how many people live there with him. However, when 17-year-old army cadet Beto (Juan Eduardo Palacios) falls in love with Estella and makes plans for the two of them to run away together, Heli’s cataclysmic knee-jerk reaction will plunge the family into pitiless and brutal violence.

Narrative films concerned with roving drug gangs, political corruption and barbaric acts of extreme and horrendous violence are depressingly common nowadays and have formed the backdrop for several high profile Hollywood movies in recent years, including Oliver Stone’s Savages (2012) and Mexico’s own Miss Bala (2011). However, Escalante’s Heli – the director of Sangre, Los Bastardos and a close friend of fellow countryman Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Post Tenebras Lux) – provides us with an uncompromisingly dark look at his nation’s plight, showing clearly how some families live in impossible situations with no hope of escape, short of keeping their heads down and fingers crossed.

The details are telling: the American advisor who implements the most disgusting and degrading humiliations on his cadet students; the doctors who refuse abortions to rape victims; the politicians who will burn drugs as a photo opportunity but will do nothing to address the real problem. The brutality on display in Heli is at times almost impossible to watch, as it should be. A horrific torture scene takes place – made worse by the fact that it is interrupting a computer game – and there’s a disapproving mother who occasionally peeks from the kitchen to see what the young lads are up to. There’s also a subplot about Heli and his wife’s sex life, as they attempt some normality in the midst of the madness.

Escalante avoids numerous well-worn social realist clichés and creates (at times) genuine beauty, evoking the place with a an eye for atmosphere. Yet ultimately, it’s the pain and madness of the foreground – a country in a state of pitiless war with itself and in which there is very little place for ordinary life – which will dominate. By simply avoiding complete despair Heli hints at hope, but remains an intense and disturbing experience nonetheless.

John Bleasdale

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Diego (Cirilo Recio) is a cross-eyed, middle-aged man who works as a doorman in a government building and spends the day counting the persons who pass in front of him. His younger wife Blanca (Laura Saldaña) works in a fast-food sushi bar. They do not have much to say to each other after a hard day’s work and so they wile away the hours watching televison. They do have an active sex life with Blanca usually leading the way. One day he arrives home to find her waiting for him nude on the floor with her legs spread wide open.

But the downside of their marriage is her jealousy. When a co-worker’s son is kidnapped, Diego walks her home and embraces her in kindness. Blanca finds out about this gesture and explodes in anger. Her apologies usually consist of sexual favors.

When Karina (Claudia Orozco), Diego’s daughter from a previous relationship, shows up and wants to stay with them, Blanca refuses and he is forced to set her up in a hotel room. She is trying to end a relationship with an addict who has gotten her into drugs. Karina’s inability to deal with the real world puts an incredible amount of pressure on her father in the mysterious last sequence of the film which takes place at a gigantic rubbish dump outside the city.

This enigmatic Mexican film directed by Amat Escalante vividly captures the shadow elements in a marriage. When Diego tries to reach out to his daughter in love, he seems at first to be too late, but he rises to the occasion and musters the inner strength that is lacking in his relationship with Blanca. Throughout the film, which has very little dialogue, it is possible to hear Diego breathing heavily. He does this not only when having sex but also during his valiant effort to do well by his daughter.

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