HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
Dates with showtimes for HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
Wed, Jul 29
- Wed, Jul 29
Director: Alex Cox Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 1991 Language: Spanish
Starring: Bruno Bichir, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Roberto Sosa, Vanessa Bauche, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a department rife with corruption. This is a new 4K restoration overseen by the director.
“[A] gringo valentine. Dark comedy. Part road movie, part western. A pungent mix of existential grunge.”
– J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
“The [real] Highway Patrol weren’t exactly keen on us telling the authentic story of one of their operatives, so our production designer, Cecilia Montiel, invented a fictitious police force, complete with cars, logos, badges and uniforms… I used to think it was about the impossibility of doing good. But now I think it’s really about the impossibility of imposing goodness on others. Today it can be seen as a film about the drug war, of course – a Mexican film genre in itself.”
– Alex Cox
“While it rightly skewers American hypocrisy and complicity in Mexican drug- trafficking, [it] abounds in the timeless virtues of traditional Filmmaking… There is an epic quality to the hero’s odyssey that recalls the Westerns of John Ford and such John Huston films as Treasure of the Sierra Madre… A beautiful, gritty film, steeped in the atmosphere of vast, desert-like vistas slashed by highways sizzling in the heat.”
– Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times