Product Details

• Actors: Fernando Becerril, Diana Garcia, Miriana Moro, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Emilio Valdes
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Ifc
• DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000VKL6V6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,382 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Torrid love triangles and dark secrets are exposed during a long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. Beautiful and cool Fernanda is forced to deal with the intense sexual tension between her and her ex-lover. An office worker with hidden indiscretions attempts suicide in a beachfront hotel when interrupted by a precocious and equally dishonest teenage girl.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Drama/Mex - Mexican power, December 20, 2007

By	Dani Umpi "Dani" (Montevideo, Uruguay) - See all my reviews

"Drama/Mex" is directed by Gerardo Naranjo, Diego Luna & Gaél García Bernal and they've created a real "obra maestra"...the story in it reflects for sure the life of the actual mexican youth between Mexico City and Acapulco, full of emotions, magnific music and beautiful colored scenes...dive in into the mexican vida!

4.0 out of 5 stars what it lacks in flash it makes up for in sincerity, September 20, 2009

By	Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

"Drama/Mex" tells of three everyday people in Acapulco whose lives intersect over the course of a two-day period. The characters include an attractive young woman named Fernanda (Diana Garcia), who's having trouble deciding whether to stay with her current beau (Juan Pablo Castaneda) or to return to her thieving cad of an ex-boyfriend (Emilio Valdes); a middle-aged business man named Jaime (Fernando Becerril), who's contemplating suicide as a way out of his unhappiness (there`s a hint that he might be having an incestuous relationship with either his daughter or stepdaughter); and a half naïve/half streetwise girl named Tigrillo (Miriana Moro), who's in the process of learning how to rip off rich, male tourists for fun and profit. The last two characters meet when Tigrillo slips into Jaime's beachside motel room to steal his wallet right at the moment that he has a loaded gun to his head. Together, these two people with relatively little in common beyond their happening to be at the same place at the same time, manage to forge an unlikely relationship that defies easy labeling.

"Drama/Mex" is a homespun, slice-of-life drama that isn't obsessed with making big dramatic gestures or revealing grand universal truths about human nature. Instead, it simply introduces us to its characters and lets their stories play out naturally, with very little manipulation or fanfare. Though the narrative is clearly contrived to some extent, the film still manages to capture the random nature of life as we live it. The characters don't necessarily "learn" anything from their experiences - but they do emerge from those experiences, to some degree or another, "changed" people, willing to look at their lives from a decidedly different vantage.

Superb performances (especially by Becerril and Moro) and direction (by Gerardo Naranjo, who also wrote the screenplay), and a refusal to tie everything up into a neat little bow at the end add to the movie`s overall quality and appeal.

5.0 out of 5 stars Drama/Mex, June 23, 2009

By	Alejandro Contreras - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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La película es muy intensa con mucha drama y adémas toca muchas temas de la joventud de hoy en día... sobre todo es muy sexy y realista.