Sat 21 Nov 6.30pm

Duke of York’s Picturehouse

DIRECTOR: Gerardo Naranjo. STARRING: Juan Pablo de Santiago, Maria Deschamps, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Pedro Gonzalez, Martha Claudia Moreno, Rebecca Jones. Mexico 2009. 106 mins. Spanish with English Subtitles.

Winner of a host of awards, Gerardo Naranjo’s I’M GONNA EXPLODE erupts from the legacy of partner in crime films and the French New Wave. Bearing traces of Godard’s PIERROT LE FOU and crime classics BADLANDS and BONNIE AND CLYDE, I’M GONNA EXPLODE unfolds with the sensory cinematography that has emerged in Mexican cinema with directors such as Alejandro González Inarritu. The story follows Maru (Maria Deschamps) and Roman (Juan Pablo de Santiago), two disaffected teenagers who meet and fall in love after Roman is expelled from his privileged education and performs a fake suicide stunt in the assembly of his new school. Finding themselves in detention together, Maru and Roman hit it off and hatch a plan; Roman fakes the abduction of Maru and they hide out from society on the roof of his father’s house, while their parents combine efforts to find them. Naranjo’s visceral style is infused with the energy of recent Mexican cinema, as Roman’s fatalistic urges drive them closer to destruction.

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