Narco Cultura
The breadth of director Shaul Schwarz's documentary Narco Cultura is staggering.
Narco Cultura
To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws, glorified by musicians who praise their new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by an addiction to money, drugs, and violence. From war photographer Shaul Schwarz comes NARCO CULTURA, an explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.
“An eye-opening examination of Mexico’s blood-soaked drug war and its unsettling pop-culture side effects, ‘Narco Cultura’ is as overwhelming as it is absorbing.” – Geoff Berkshire, Variety
“This is a powerful, angry, stomach-pummelling documentary that leaves us to draw our own conclusions.” – Lee Marshall, Screen International
“An eye-opening examination of Mexico’s blood-soaked drug war and its unsettling pop-culture side effects, ‘Narco Cultura’ is as overwhelming as it is absorbing.” – Geoff Berkshire, Variety
“This is a powerful, angry, stomach-pummelling documentary that leaves us to draw our own conclusions.” – Lee Marshall, Screen International
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
Runtime
102
Language
English,
Spanish
Director
Shaul Schwarz
FEATURED REVIEW
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Just outside the city of Culiacán, near the northwestern coast of Mexico, sits an impressive new development, a boomtown where construction never stops. It’s a monument to the neoliberal reshaping of our southern neighbor’s economy, and to the social and cultural interpenetration between America and ...
Played at
Royal 12.06.13 - 12.12.13
Playhouse 7 12.06.13 - 12.19.13
NoHo 7 12.20.13 - 12.24.13
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