Word: amaro
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...abused child, a caring brother, a furtive lover capable of murder. But that's no great stretch for Gael García Bernal. The budding Mexican star has convinced audiences he can be a dog-loving street punk (Amores Perros), a priest tortured by love (El Crimen del Padre Amaro), a randy teenager on a spree (Y Tu Mamá También). In The Motorcycle Diaries, which just opened, he incarnates the young Ernesto Guevara, soon to be Che. Bad Education follows in November, and after that, who knows? The kid from Guadalajara, Mexico, is high on Hollywood's muy caliente list...
...brutally realistic saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting story of a Roman Catholic priest who impregnates an adoring teen-age girl, hit theaters during the throes of last year's clerical sexual abuse scandals. It is now Mexico's biggest home-grown box-office hit ever, as well as a nominee for Best Foreign Language...
...gets into when he spies the beautiful, teenage Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon), a passionately religious virgin and thus rather more inclined to yield to the priest than to her secular swain. You can also perhaps imagine the outrage that is greeting the release of El Crimen del Padre Amaro...
...tactics are typical of such outbursts in two respects: most of the league's leaders have not seen the film, and they are creating the kind of free publicity small-scale art-house movies can only dream about. In Mexico the controversy has made Padre Amaro the biggest box-office hit in the country's history; it is Mexico's official entry for the foreign-language Academy Award...
...once, you can believe a beleaguered distributor. The affair between Padre Amaro and Amelia ends in trag-edy. But before that occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...