The film is inextricably bound to the very thing whose unstoppable creep worries Almada.
Fatima Buntinx carries Las Malas Intenciones on her diminutive shoulders, and her performance treads a fine line.
Natalia Almada captures the rhythms of daily and nightly life in a Sinaloa cemetery in a quiet flow of images that gains power with surprising speed.
El Velador doesn’t pass judgment or manipulate emotionally, instead choosing simply to consider the arduousness of survival in a land wracked by slaughter.