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Dance with the Devil

Perdita Durango
1997MexicoLanguage: esDirected by Álex de la Iglesia★ 6.5
Available in English: subtitled

She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.

Themes and style

Tone
dark comedybrutalsurrealchaoticcold and detached
Pacing
relentlessescalatingerratic
Story
pursuitescapejourneycon deception
Emotion
all-consuming loveragefiguring out who you areloss of innocence
Themes
class and moneycaught between worldsreligion and faithmen and women navigating expectationspoverty
Feel
exhaustingdiscussion startergut punchrewatchable
Violence
extreme

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