• “A surprisingly real and visually amazing story (…) Perhaps the harsh stories about drugs are nothing new, but this one sure has something deep to share.”
    – Owen Gleiberman: Variety

    “The war takes on a mithological tone to narrate what it is, essentially, a story about latinamerican gangsters (…) the makers assume a sober tone that evades the narco movies’ violent excesses.”
     
    Leonardo García Tsao: La Jornada 

    “The result is potent, articulate,  splattered by extraordinary sequences, and it is build wiht a maginific sense of rythm.”
    Sergio Huibobro: Cine Premier 

    “Superbly crafted (…) it intelligently  explores how longstanding traditions can be gradually upended by drugs, money and outside influences.
     Jordan Mintzer: The Hollywood Reporter

    “Is an engrossing narco-thriller which deftly balances the storytelling tradition of the Wayuu with the genre conventions of the crime movie and the western.”
     Wendy Ide: Screendaily

  • “A shocking and risky film that explores, through horror and science fiction, without giving up the social comentary on the contemporary mexican society, homophobia, machismo, gender violence, and indiference.”
    — Javier Pérez: CinePremiere.

    “Ecstasy and agony, Aros and Thanatos as the two drivind forces of the universe that within The Untamed are fulled with a grandious expressive potence.”
    — Beatríz Martínez: El País 

    “This sly and subversive allegorical body horror from the Mexican director of Heli is about the universal drives and addictions that power us all through lifeThis sly and subversive allegorical body horror from the Mexican director of Heli is about the universal drives and addictions that power us all through life.”
    — Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian

    “By rooting the story so firmly in the everyday, Escalante emphasises his metaphoric intent – the thing in the barn stands for the untameable erotic aspect of the Id, but the ‘wild region’ alluded to in the film’s Spanish title (La Region Salvaje) is the destructive drive of humanity, embodied in Angel’s machismo and in the guns and animal head trophies that fill his parents’ home.”
    — Jonathan Romney: Screendaily

    “A shocking and risky film that explores, through horror and science fiction, without giving up the social comentary on the contemporary mexican society, homophobia, machismo, gender violence, and indiference.”
    — Javier Pérez: CinePremiere.

    “Ecstasy and agony, Aros and Thanatos as the two drivind forces of the universe that within The Untamed are fulled with a grandious expressive potence.”
    — Beatríz Martínez: El País 

    “This sly and subversive allegorical body horror from the Mexican director of Heli is about the universal drives and addictions that power us all through lifeThis sly and subversive allegorical body horror from the Mexican director of Heli is about the universal drives and addictions that power us all through life.”
    — Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian

    “By rooting the story so firmly in the everyday, Escalante emphasises his metaphoric intent – the thing in the barn stands for the untameable erotic aspect of the Id, but the ‘wild region’ alluded to in the film’s Spanish title (La Region Salvaje) is the destructive drive of humanity, embodied in Angel’s machismo and in the guns and animal head trophies that fill his parents’ home.”
    — Jonathan Romney: Screendaily

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    “Matar extraños plantea una concepción moderna de la Historia y la Revolución Mexicana a partir de una representación histórica, con una puesta en escena teatral y política donde los personajes, interpretados en su mayoría por actores no profesionales, proyectan sus fantasías personales y colectivas en un universo incierto, plagado de hipótesis”.
    Héctor Cruz Pérez: Chilango

    “Pereda y Schulsinger realizan aquí un filme experimental, imaginativo, que reflexiona acerca del momento en el que la Historia se convierte en mito y el mito se convierte en una verdad. Un western revolucionario posmoderno con una temática universal que profundiza en el modo en que las naciones han creado, reproducido y legitimado sus mitos gloriosos a partir de la imaginación de sus habitantes a lo largo del tiempo. Una deconstrucción del discurso del Estado y sus elementos fundacionales”.
    – Irving Torres Yllán: CineNT

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    «La fotografía de la película, el uso de la música, los juegos con los tiempos y la combinación de distintos formatos o emulsiones son formidables. Una atmósfera opresiva, fascinante y morbosamente atrayente se apodera del film y te invade incluso en los momentos de la trama en los que aparentemente no ocurre nada».
    — Beatriz Maldivia: Spinoff

    «Como los filmes de Dreyer, Tarkovsky y Bergman, Anticristo se tiene que experimentar en lugar de entender. Es un trabajo solemne y es actuada con compromiso y convicción moral por Gainsbourg y Dafoe».
    — Phillip French: The Observer

    «Éste es el mayor logro de Von Trier. Ha creado un mundo que le es fiel a su lógica siempre cambiante y fantasmal. Es un mundo que pinta un retrato desolado, violento y, para algunos, misógino, de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres».
    — Sukhdev Sandhu:The Telegraph

    «El realizador danés, que ya ha ganado una Palma de Oro, supera una vez más sus límites con una película inquietante, por momentos impactante, pero en cualquier caso fascinante a pesar de los excesos a que son sometidos sus dos actores, una espectacular Charlotte Gainsbourg y un muy sobrio Willem Dafoe».
    — Fabien Lemercier: Cineuropa