Mexico’s Gerardo Naranjo follows up his 2006 Drama/Mex with another look at the world of the troubled teen in I’m Gonna Explode about two disaffected middle-class youngsters who come together and ...

Imagine Bonnie and Clyde as remade by Jean Luc Godard: Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo’s I’m Gonna Explode is a stylish hand-grenade of a film. It features two teenagers - Roman (Juan Pablo de ...

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35 Shots Of Rum The other night while watching Claire Denis’ 35 Shots Of Rum, I suddenly realised I was falling in love. It’s happened to me before, this feeling where you’re comfortable and ...

Apair of troubled teenagers run away from their families in a Mexican drama that, while nice to look at, is deeply boring. Román, the son of rich, right-wing parents, attracts the attention of ...

It’s all but impossible to find a piece on I’m Gonna Explode that doesn’t mention its indebtedness to Jean-Luc Godard’s lovers-on-the-lam masterpiece, Pierrot le fou. The comparison is superficially ...

Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo gets the new year off to a sharply observed start with his tale of two runaway teens. Maru (Maria Deschamps) is the bored, frustrated diarist whose musings supply the ...

Having railed against the system by staging a fake kidnapping, rebels- without-a-cause Juan Pablo de Santiago and Maria Deschamps steal a car and head for Mexico City in Gerardo Naranjo’s homage to ...