The two main actors have annoying personalities and little to offer this coming-of-age/road trip hybrid flop. It is some parts political, others "wisdom" of life from a murderer and a sex fiend, and final part two silly bickering teenagers. You would be more inclined to babysit your neighbor's kids than to endure this slow motion train wreck of a film. In order to add suspense, several shady figures ominously portend a possible assault, but alas, despite all the death going on around them, are lucky duo is safe and sound to grandmother's house. Is she home? I cannot say as if this movie could be any more spoilt.
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An unpretentious, innovative and gripping road movie.
maria-douza21 November 2014
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I saw 'A Separate Wind' at the Kolkata Film festival and liked it a lot. It is an honest, unpretentious film, with a good narrative, subtle acting, and an uncompromising style. This is a contemporary road movie in Mexico, which manages to be at the same time realistic and poetic, showing a country which (like most countries) has as many problems as it has charms. This I liked most; the fine balance the film strikes between the dark side of things – whether in the main characters, or the people and situations they come across – and the depiction of a brighter reality. Although the kids' journey is marked by dangerous and unpredictable encounters, which keep us on edge, in the end – to my huge relief - nothing of the usual horrible things we see in movies happens, but rather acts of kindness and understanding, and as the film comes to the end, one is left feeling that the world is both luring and dangerous, mysterious and familiar, harsh and generous, right and wrong. But aren't we all?
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