SUNDOWN (2021) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Michel Franco
Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios,
Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan
Tim Roth, looking a bit weathered, plays a Brit on vacation at a luxury resort in Mexico with his sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her two grown children. When a family emergency calls them back to London, he decides not to go, claims he's lost his passport, and checks into a hotel in a part of Acapulco where wealthy gringos don't normally go. He seems out of it - a functioning zombie - and you don't really find out why till close to the end. More puzzling is why he's being such an asshole. He's rich - the family owns slaughterhouses - so maybe that's part of it, like, if you've got enough pesos and you're feeling disaffected, the rules don't apply. Keep an eye out for the pigs.
