WE ARE THE FLESH (Tenemos la carne, 2016)

Mexico. Direction: Emiliano Rocha Minter. Production: Julio Chavezmontes, Moisés Cosío, Emiliano Rocha Minter / Piano, Detalle Films, IMCINE, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (México). Screenplay: Emiliano Rocha Minter. Photography: Yollótl Alvarado. Music: Esteban Aldrete. Edition: Yibran Assuad, Emiliano Rocha Minter. Cast: Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel. Running time: 80 min

LANGUAGE: Spanish / SUBTITLES: English

Blood, lust and post-apocalyptic Mexican cinema, supported by two directors who take a walk on the wild side with their frames. Of course, we mean Reygadas. But we also mean Iñárritu, from The Revenant (2015). Fresh, fleshy and feverish film. Two hungry brothers in a dead city. An abandoned building, inhabited by a strange man. Asking for, and offering help... in exchange for what? Rituals and cinema that devours the screen. Sadistic, incestuous, highly stylised with Yollótl Alvarado's photography, it awed and shocked in Rotterdam where a brave distributor, Reel Suspects, purchased its worldwide rights. By the way, Emiliano was denied admission to the Mexican Film School three times. So he studied Fine Arts.