Inspired by the real 2003 incident in which 19 illegal immigrants suffocated in the back of a transport truck, La Tragedia de Macario tells the doomed story of Macario, a Mexican laborer who is already struggling to keep beans on the table for himself and his wife when he loses his job, and decides to go north. "Between Macario's visions of a mournful, singing Virgin Mary...and his sense of doom for having robbed a murdered drug dealer to finance his trip, Macario is caught in a magic realist-Catholic-gothic nightmare that seems destined to end badly." (Variety) More at arrivalpictures.com/latragedia
2005, color, 1 hour 11 minutes, Mexico