Guilty Men
Film Comment Selects 2017
February 17 - 23, 2017
A love triangle ensues when a woman’s ex surfaces, to the displeasure of her corrupt strongman fiancé, in Gaona’s sharp debut feature, which taps into Colombia’s roiling discontent amidst corruption and the foreboding legacy of paramilitaries in the countryside.
“Gaona’s sharp debut feature taps into Colombia’s roiling discontent amidst corruption and the foreboding legacy of paramilitaries in the countryside. The queasily tense drama tracks a rural love triangle that ensues when a woman’s ex surfaces, to the displeasure of her corrupt strongman fiancé. Despite a sweet sense of yearning between the potential lovers, any hope of romance seems set to wither and die amidst the moral rot and, more concretely, the thefts and killings that periodically occur and drive home the powerlessness of the area’s inhabitants. Gaona shows how the violence becomes a part of the landscape as much as the local sugarcane, as he charts the varying degrees to which people give in, or resist.” (Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment)
Please note: this screening will take place in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
A tale of sexual jealousy and vengeance with a hint of James M. Cain in its DNA and an acute sense of how political conflict infects everyday life.
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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