Word: crimen
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...Alex de la Iglesia. Rare U.S. screenings Alex de la Iglesia’s best films—several of which are produced by Pedro Almodovar—an unknown, but virtuosic, European director whose dark comedies (such as last year’s “El Crimen Perfecto”) transcend genre and defy social convention. Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
...wreck of an abused child, a caring brother, a furtive lover capable of murder. But that's no great stretch for Gael Garca 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 Mam Tambin). 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...
...imagine the trouble he 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...
...CRIME OF FATHER AMARO (EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO...