Los Chidos

The Gonzales family try hard to hold on to their beautiful Latino traditions of misogyny and homophobia. Proprietors of a tire repair junkyard, they spend all day watching TV, fondling each other, eating like pigs, drinking like fish and showing a general disregard for social conventions. The appearance of a tall, white Stranger in their midst tips the scales and their masks are shed to disastrous effect. Merging Mexican soap opera with the flamboyant Italian melodramas of the 50s, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - better known as the guitarist for The Mars Volta - descends into a world the Surrealists would love, in an attempt to criticize the backwards mentality of a large portion of Latin America. Sloth, incest, coprophilia, misogyny, cross-dressing, and every other perversion known to man, will parade on the big screen with the sole purpose of making you doubt everything you though you knew about ethics and social conventions, without ever feeling preachy or patronising. On the contrary, "Los Chidos" remain entertaining from beginning to end, in their own thoroughly perverted way. Ph.V.

Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Σενάριο / Screenwriter: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Φωτογραφία / DoP: Michael Rizzi

Μοντάζ / Editor: Adam Thomson

Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast: Kim Stodel, María De Jesús Canales Ramírez, Manuel Ramos, Cecillia Gutiérrez, Erasmo Rodríguez

ΗΠΑ, Γερμανία, Μεξικό / USA, Germany, Mexico 2012

Εγχρωμο / Color

94'

Ισπανικά, Αγγλικά / Spanish, English