A series of auditions is taking place in a museum-like living room. Various men improvise or deliver prepared lines, rehearse gestures and slogans, aim guns, and collapse as if mortally wounded. The theme of revolution is repeatedly invoked. In between, there are scenes of a desert landscape. Three men seeking to join the Mexican Revolution at the beginning of the last century have lost their way. Conflicts smolder among them, water is running low, and mutual mistrust is beginning to take hold. Placing the reenactment of a possible historical event alongside the preparations for it serves to underline the theatricality of every cinematic account of history. Moreover, on a kind of playful meta-meta-level, the scenes in which the actors feel their way through set pieces from a Beatles song or standard battle slogans allow the viewer to witness the simultaneous construction and deconstruction of a collective myth of revolution.
Release Date: February 23, 2013
September 01, 2005
November 25, 1973
October 23, 2006
February 11, 2021
April 11, 1947
December 20, 2018
June 22, 2015
May 01, 2006
January 21, 2015
May 19, 2018
July 05, 1972
September 12, 2019
December 28, 1954
March 03, 1978
October 21, 1983
February 23, 1958
October 01, 1987
September 08, 1966
May 26, 2006
April 01, 1980