A Cop Movie (Ruizpalacios, 2021): ICA Cinema, 5.10pm
Every day (from October 6th to October 17th) I will be selecting the
London Film Festival choices you have a chance to get tickets for and
the movies you are unlikely to see in London very soon unless you go to
see them at the Festival. Here
is the LFF's main website for the general information you need. Don't
worry if some of the recommended films are sold out by the time you read
this as there are always some tickets on offer which go on sale 30
minutes before each screening. Here is all the information you need about the best way to get tickets.
This film also screens at BFI Southbank (October 8th). Full details here.
BFI review:
Meet tenacious Maria Teresa Hernández Cañas and her partner Montoya, two lowly police officers trying to maintain law and order in Mexico City. Each narrates and re-enacts the highs and lows of the job in this slick, 1970s-style action movie. With its immersive action sequences and coded language A Cop Movie takes the viewer to the very heart of what policing means in an expansive urban metropolis. A socially insightful and brilliantly corrosive study of institutional corruption, Ruizpalacios (Guëros, Museo) exposes the near impossibility of following the letter of the law when bribery and nepotism is a way of life. Bold, adventurous and ingenious, this genre-defying feature navigates the complexities of roleplay when the viewer cannot be entirely sure of the boundaries between the real and the fictitious.
Maria Delgado
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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