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Tuesday, June 6, 2006
This Week's Hot Video: 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada'
After decades as one of America's most reliable actors, Tommy Lee Jones steps behind the camera to direct himself in the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary Western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate.
Melquiades Estrada is a Mexican cowboy (Julio Cesar Cedillo) befriended by Texas ranch hand Pete Perkins (Jones). The film opens on the discovery of Melquiades' murdered corpse and fills out the story in a dense crisscrossing of characters, stories and timelines. The script by Guillermo Arriaga jumps to flashbacks without warning and expects the audience to catch up with it.
It's the loveliest and least self-congratulatory film about racism, redemption, mortality and self-discovery you'll see all year.
In English and some Spanish with English subtitles. 121 minutes. Rated R for language, violence and sexuality. (Sean Axmaker)
GRADE: A
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