A country house, a closeted novelist, and a shotgun. What could go wrong?
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Direction
Ripstein's suffocating long takes trap you with the characters.
Acting
López Tarso's patriarch simmers with terrifying authority.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched rural Mexico becomes its own character.
Director
Arturo Ripstein
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