A selection in the prestigious Locarno and Mar Del Plata film festivals, Mexican director Julio Hernandez Cordon taps into the restless energy of youth with his striking
I Promise You Anarchy (
Te Prometo Anarquia). Here's how Mar Del Plata describes it:
Young and wild, rebellious and confused, the güeros
who live in this world are looking for trouble. Miguel and
Johnny live in a constant present, loving each other clumsily,
flailing and begging for a bit of emotion in an urban and
brutal world. It's a post-adolescent limbo inhabited by impatient
skater tribes who blindly try to find love through sex
(lots of pretty intense, wet-boxers sex) and search for hope
in drugs, as they turn blood trafficking into a business and
loud music into their home. No one here is pushing thirty,
because thirties seem to be a galaxy away. If there are any
concerned mothers here, they are almost absent, and their
kids no longer answer to them -they cure themselves from
the fear of emptiness by moving in a pack, skating through
markets, alleys, and abandoned trucks. This is a desolated,
apocalyptic and current Mexico, chingado all the way. Miguel
clings to both his ingenuousness, hoping it would cure him,
and to love, which is the only thing that cannot be bought or
sold, the only way to open the doors into a world of dreams
that would save him from all that sordidness.
The trailer for this one is a visually rich, rhythmic and hypnotic affair. Take a look at the latest from one of Mexico's most intriguing talents below.