Killing Strangers (2013)

Killing Strangers (2013), directed by Jacob Secher Schulsinger, starring Gabino Rodríguez and Tenoch Huerta Mejía.

02/23/2013 BR Drama 1h 3m

Synopsis

A series of auditions is taking place in a museum-like living room. Various men improvise or deliver prepared lines, rehearse gestures and slogans, aim guns, and collapse as if mortally wounded. The theme of revolution is repeatedly invoked. In between, there are scenes of a desert landscape. Three men seeking to join the Mexican Revolution at the beginning of the last century have lost their way. Conflicts smolder among them, water is running low, and mutual mistrust is beginning to take hold. Placing the reenactment of a possible historical event alongside the preparations for it serves to underline the theatricality of every cinematic account of history. Moreover, on a kind of playful meta-meta-level, the scenes in which the actors feel their way through set pieces from a Beatles song or standard battle slogans allow the viewer to witness the simultaneous construction and deconstruction of a collective myth of revolution.

What the catalogue says about this film

• Nicolás Pereda and Gabino Rodríguez have worked together on 5 films in the catalogue
• Film 2 of 6 by Nicolás Pereda in the catalogue
• Gabino Rodríguez and Tenoch Huerta Mejía share the screen in 4 films in the catalogue

Every comparison is within the CineQuiz catalogue, not cinema as a whole.

• Jacob Secher SchulsingerDirector
• Nicolás PeredaDirector