Recensione di jameskortar

A gangster art house film. There I said it, never thought I would, never thought I would see a Chicago movie about gangs play out as an artistic piece; reminiscent at times of Alejandro González Iñárritu's early work Amores Perros. This is a much more organic attempt at mixing real people and real places into a cinematic story. At moments I could tell the local actors who were picked up and placed into the movie from the theater actors (at times over projecting) to the film actors who performed in refinement.

Adios Vaya Con Dios is a mix of different intensities, but it works just as good as it will get knowing how movie was filmed. Zachary Laoutides' unconventional script gives us something completely distinctive then what we would expect a stereotypical Latino gangster movie to include. It's even difficult for me to call it 'gangster' or 'Latino' for that matter. It's something unalike on the artistic side of the tracks and because of that I enjoyed it. Art wins in the streets.

Maybe it's the euro rock music that was selected featuring artists from the UK and Mexico that transformed the tempo of the film or maybe it's the realism of every time Zachary Laoutides is on camera and we see his internal pain, a rather silent performance, but he doesn't need to say much. I'm interested in following the La Raza film movement, so it's been coined; to see what this group of artists create next as it's something fresh and stimulating, not falling into the cliché of movie-making.