A woman's search for freedom is enlivened by a director's exciting homecoming to a time when he answered to no one but himself.
Mexico's official entry to the Oscars doesn't show the country in the best light, but its director may be one of its brightest stars with this deliberate thriller about a pageant queen caught up in the local drug wars.
The director, star and producer of the nervy, yet unnerving Guadalajara-set action flick talk about making a video version of their entire film before putting it on celluloid, conveying dignity, and how they feel about representing Mexico with a film critical of the national proliferation of gangs.
