Cruel at heart. Everything tried to find what is the relationship between the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, the picture "Wild at Heart" of the cult director David Lynch with this tape, the name of which can audially cause a smile, "Perdita Durango". At first, I noticed that both there and there in the creation of the script, Barry Gifford took a direct part. But the same is not enough to talk about "Perd Durango", as a sequel "Wildhearted", and only then I saw that the heroine with this name visited the tape Lincha performed by Isabella Rossellini.
The American-Spanish-Mexican film "Perdita Durango" is not a direct sequel to the film "Wild at Heart". This is like the director, screenwriter and actor Kevin Smith, the characters are intertwined in different films, but have a purely indirect relationship to each other (the only exception is the clerks dilogy, which may soon turn into a trilogy). But it became clear that Barry Gifford put on the pages of the script thoughts about his secondary heroine from another movie. What now we will meet this daring girl (from the annotation to the film you can read that her name translates as "Bold").
Perdita Durango is a lively and dangerous lady who is not easy to deal with. Her criminal tendencies coexist with insanity. It seems like nothing like this, you can approach, it looks like it is somehow easily accessible, but then it would be good to leave all the stuff safe, or even save life. In one evening, she meets a certain Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), who, according to the level of sanity, can hardly belong to adequate people, besides, he has long been watched by the investigating authorities. But the fateful acquaintance of Perdita and Romeo can lead to terrible consequences.
This picture is one of those that will tell about a deadly couple of lovers, we will show them in the style of “road-movie”, which was the main in the whole history of “Wild Heart”. Seriously embedded elements of crime border on cruelty, horror, fear, bloodlust; it's like the dance of death in the cemetery of a stunning girl - repulsive, but impossible to break away. In principle, a couple of main characters can be attributed to the same maniacs from "Natural Born Killers" or include murder in their daily life pair from "True Love", and "Wildhearted" and so stand together with "Perdita Durango".
The action takes place in Mexico. But even the reigning lawlessness, arms and drug dealers, pimps and assassins can all seem playful children compared to Perdita and Romeo. The heat of the desert, the dust of the road, sex and violence are the main components of the atmosphere of the picture. Of course, people impressionable to watch this film is strictly forbidden.
The actors engaged in the film, seriously approached the roles, without negligence, creating images that perfectly fit into the atmosphere of the picture and its concept. The Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia I know from the tapes "Murders in Oxford" and "The Last Spark of Life", the films, frankly, are average, but now it has become clear due to what the director does not lower his bar, being able to achieve from the actors the necessary state and demonstration of heroes. I can mark everyone for this film: and Rosi Perez, frightening to nightmares Perdita, and Bardem, which struck even more, playing a sanity-disturbed Romeo, and two young guys who by chance were in the wrong place, at the wrong time (this is about Amy Graham and Harley Cross).
If you are good with the criminal thriller, which is not alien to the feeling of cruelty and violence, then look at this picture, behind its unknown it will surprise with its quality and originality.
8 out of 10