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Highway Patrolman
Directed by Alex Cox
Director:
Alex Cox
Writer: Lorenzo O'Brien
Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a department rife with corruption. This is a new 4K restoration overseen by the director.
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"[A] gringo valentine. Dark comedy. Part road movie, part western. A pungent mix of existential grunge."
- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
"The [real] Highway Patrol weren't exactly keen on us telling the authentic story of one of their operatives, so our production designer, Cecilia Montiel, invented a fictitious police force, complete with cars, logos, badges and uniforms... I used to think it was about the impossibility of doing good. But now I think it's really about the impossibility of imposing goodness on others. Today it can be seen as a film about the drug war, of course - a Mexican film genre in itself."
- Alex Cox
"While it rightly skewers American hypocrisy and complicity in Mexican drug- trafficking, [it] abounds in the timeless virtues of traditional Filmmaking... There is an epic quality to the hero's odyssey that recalls the Westerns of John Ford and such John Huston films as Treasure of the Sierra Madre... A beautiful, gritty film, steeped in the atmosphere of vast, desert-like vistas slashed by highways sizzling in the heat."
- Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times
"The beautiful but arid landscape of north central Mexico is almost as much a character as Pedro, whom Mr. Sosa portrays in a performance that is at once strong and unassuming."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"A beautifully observed, morally intelligent film."
- Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
"The hero is a young idealist fresh out of the police academy in Mexico City, ordered to a post in a mountainous, fir-treed outback where corruption reigns supreme. No one can tread these grounds untouched, not even him. The performances throughout are intelligent, understated. There's a nervy moment of stylish flourish when Cox's floating steadicam [sic -- read CAMERA] accompanies our hero, bloodied and limping, down a stretch of highway, midway though his life's defining gun battle -- but for the most part Cox's calm, feline gaze never judges or reproaches, never telegraphs to us what we're supposed to feel about what we're looking at. HIGHWAY PATROLMAN is an astonishing, mature piece of work. It's like a Bresson film with a rock & roll pulse."
- F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly
"Maybe the best film of Cannes 1992. Beautiful, wacky, utterly self-assured. A subtle comedy of errors."
- Georgia Brown, The Village Voice
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