Michel Franco’s new film, “Sundown,” “could be described as a holiday movie set in Acapulco,” Anthony Lane writes. “Don’t worry, though. It’s still a nightmare.”
What is the opposite of a crowd-pleaser? A throng-botherer, perhaps, or a mass-baiter? Some such term is needed for the kinds of film that are visited upon us by the Mexican director Michel Franco. The hero of Franco’s “Chronic” , for instance, was a nurse, played by Tim Roth, who cared for the terminally sick, including a stroke victim with a weakness for pornography. Now Roth is back, in Franco’s “Sundown,” which could be described as a holiday movie set in Acapulco. Don’t worry, though.
So instinctively do we link Tim Roth with aggression—remember how he chatters, gesticulates, smokes, and waves a firearm in the diner sequence that opens “Pulp Fiction” —that it’s amazing to witness the portrait of pure passivity that he unveils here. His shoulders slump, as though bowed by an invisible yoke.
Toward the end of “Sundown,” we are granted yet another revelation, which supposedly—and, I would argue, disastrously—explainsNeil has chosen to tune out. What the movie thus gains in coherence it loses in tension, secrecy, and existential shock. I don’t want to know the raison d’être of a man like Neil . He needs no reasons. Just watch him turn aside from life and lift his face to the sun.
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