#21. Amat Escalante’s Heli
Gist: Less encompassing than the Un Certain Regard selected Miss Bala, shot in various locations outside the city of Guanajuato, where most citizens work for an automobile assembly plant or the local drug cartel, Heli is confronted with police corruption, drug trafficking, sexual exploitation, love, guilt and revenge in the search for his father who has mysteriously disappeared.
Prediction: Should it be finally ready (we damn hope it is), the film which Escalante calls a cross between Sangre (2005) and Los bastardos (2008) should follow in the same footsteps as his previous pair: three films all selected for the Un Certain Regard section.
