Release Date | 1992-08-21 |
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Runtime | 85 minutes |
Genres | Drama |
Stars | María Rojo, Hugo Stiglitz, Yirah Aparicio, Patricia Aguirre, Susana Contreras |
Directors | Rubén Gámez, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Rafael Castanedo, Rubén Gámez, Rubén Gámez |
Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.