Los Bastardos

A multiple award winner and 2008 Cannes Film Festival selection, Amat Escalante's Los Bastardos "looks and sounds very impressive" (Variety), and makes an indeliby disturbing impact. Like the rest of the day-labouring migrant workers who gather together each morning on a southwesten American strip mall sidewalk, Jesus and Fausto struggle to get ahead in El Norte. But when a callous gringo boss strands them in the middle of a community that exploits them one minute and insults them the next, the two young men cock their sawed off shotgun and calmy take a troubled housewife hostage in her own home. Los Bastardos plumbs the depths of human brutality with the same cool cinematic ceritude as the works of Michael Haneke