Product Details

• Actors: Fernando Luján, Julieta Egurrola, Carmen Delgado, Álvaro Guerrero, María Isasi
• Directors: Maricarmen de Lara
• Writers: Laura Sosa, Maricarmen de Lara
• Producers: Jorge Sánchez, Laura Imperiale, Álvaro Garnica
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005MEWC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,958 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "In the Country Where Nothing Happens" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A carefully crafted adventure satire about double lives & double meanings. Enrique a corrupt businessman is kidnapped. His wife elena receives a ransom note & a videotape of enrique with his lover rita. But when elena & rite become friends they decide that perhaps enrique is not worth rescuing. Studio: Vanguard Cinema Release Date: 05/06/2003 Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tour de farce, March 17, 2003

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Enrique Torres "Rico" (San Diegotitlan, Califas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: En El Pais De No Pasa Nada (DVD)

This is a verry funny movie that is irreverent towards several aspects of Mexican society. A satirical punch in the face of big business and its leaders and the corruption power spawns. This movie is deserving of a review rather than an annonymous play on words. There is some good acting , especially by Fernando Lujan and Julietta Equrrola, both of whom won awards at the prestigious Guadalajara Film Festival 2000. The film also won Best Picture at the festival. They won best actor and actress for their performances as a married couple living in Mexico City. Fernando Lujan is Enrique aka William to his mistress Rita who is an aspiring rock star . Enrique is part of a company that is invloved in drug dealing and money laundering while fronting as a distributor of milk for social programs. His wife Elena is always fantasizing in soap operas, seeing herself in various roles(she even dresses up as a super heroine) but is caught in an unhappy mariage. She gets wind of her husbands philandering via video tape and thinks it is joke until she meets the mistress. One of the funniest scenes is when she accidently drinks a drug spiked litre of orange juice while listening to Rita's band and everything suddenly is lovely and the story takes an odd turn. There are also a couple of inept kidnappers who take Enrique in the meantime where a whole series of outrageous scenes develop. It is a movie that will make you laugh as no punches are held back when it somes to societies ills in the form of corruption, money laudering, infidelity, kidnapping, robbery and crooked business deals. It is a farce of the highest order. There is much to see in this film as things are constantly happening away from the main action as muggers and car jackers go unnoticed and people nonchalantly go about their everyday business. The comedy of errors by the dim witted kinappers is hilarious as is the persona of Enrique during his captor. Mexican rockera Julietta Venegas lends her talents to the musical soundtrack for some memorable tracks that Rita lip syncs. It is movie that is similar to other films from Mexico like "Todo El Poder" and "La Ley De Herodes." Recommended for people who can laugh at Mexican culture, themselves and a good satirical look at modern society.