FILM

“In Los muertos, a man named Argentino has just served a prison sentence for killing his younger brothers. The film picks him up at the prison’s exit and follows him in his journey downriver to find his daughter. Critics speculated that he is a compulsive murderer who would end up killing her after the film ends. We’ll never know, because the director doesn’t have the slightest idea. There are two constants in Alonso’s cinema: nature and the desire to confront the viewer with primitive ways of life that are far removed from so-called civilization. Cinema becomes a space in which man inhabits indescribable realms of human nature.” (Quintín)