LATINO BAR

Paul Leduc, without question the Mexican cinema's most important director working today, has undertaken a unique cinematic experiment through visually sumptuous and aurally complex films that tell their stories with absolutely no dialogue. This bold form of storytelling has reached its steamy apogee with LATINO BAR, an absorbing tale of passion among the lower class in an unnamed waterfront dive. Leduc's stylistic gamble succeeds primarily on the strength of the exceedingly seedy Maracaibo, Venezuela location and the lazily feral leading performance of Dolores Pedro as the distant bar girl who allows herself to become slowly embroiled in an affair with one of the joint's more attractive regulars.