Temblores

Temblores moves from the unbelievable to the unbearable, and digs further. It isn’t so much the denounce of an endemic cultural blindness, as the microanalysis of the individual reactions that make it so abrasively convincing. Hinting at broader problems such as that of identity and free will, Bustamante guides us through the absurd, the touching—excruciatingly so, when two children steal a perfume to feel their dad closer and fall asleep tenderly hugging each other—and the near-comedy, as a priest echoes with words of wisdom an already preposterous situation or a religious fanatic lady in a perfect sheath dress gives a Full-Metal-Jacket-like lesson in masculinity to a group of naked men in a shower.
From the very first ambiguous scene to the genius finale, our heart is shaken, our eyes wide open.