Mexico Submits 'Heli' for 2014 Oscar Foreign-Language Film Race Maane Khatchatourian - Variety
go to original September 20, 2013

Mexico's Amat Escalante won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May for the ultra-violent "Heli" about his country's blood-drenched drug wars. (CineVistaBlog)

Amat Escalante‘s divisive Mexican cartel drama about the budding love between a young girl and a policeman won the ARRI/OSRAM award for best film at the Munich Intl. Film Festival earlier this year. Additionally, Escalante nabbed the director prize at the film’s Cannes Film Festival in May.

“Heli” shocked some Cannes critics for its unflinching portrayal of drug violence. But, “The film is a fiction. It’s about characters, a family that is destroyed by the violence and attempts to rebuild. Mexico’s drg wars is just the context,” Escalante told Variety Wednesday after “Heli” was named Mexico’s Academy Award submission.

In his Cannes film review, Variety critic Scott Foundas wrote that the pic was “destined to traumatize buyers and audiences in roughly equal measure.”

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