The kings of Mexican Cinema ( if not the indie film scene all together), Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, premiered their new movie Rudo y Cursi last weekend in the U.S. Being deeply, madly, truly in love with Mr. Bernal, Ferdinando and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to catch the film in Soho ( Hans opted for Little Ashes).

It wasn't your typical film produced by Cuaron, Del Toro, and Inarritu. Sure it made references to problems in Mexican society ( drug lords, class discrimination, poverty), but its purpose wasn't to attack those problems. Many of those who went and saw the film expected just that: the typical Mexican indie with metaphorical undertones criticizing social problems. Well we got the complete opposite, a film satirizing those problems entirely. A comedy. A really funny one at that.

~Francois