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 [show more]
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Gritty thriller following 24 fateful hours in the lives of two illegal Mexican workers in Los Angeles. Fausto (Rubén Sosa) and Jesus (Jesus Moises Rodriguez) live below the radar, hanging around a street corner and picking up whatever cash-in-hand jobs they can. On this particular day they are offered an unusually well-paying job; one that will see their lives intersect with the very different existence of American mother Karen (Nina Zavarin). Karen is relatively well-off but seems unhappy and frustrated. She has a poor relationship with her son and argues with him that day, leading him to leave her alone in the house. When confronted with Fausto and Jesus, Karen finds herself facing a more immediate problem and will have to cross cultural and class barriers if she hopes to resolve it.
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