Narco Cultura

Name: Narco Cultura
Genre: Documentary, News
Released: November 22, 2013
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 74

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Cinedigm Entertainment Group | Release Date: November 22, 2013 | R

Summary: To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto - a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction toTo a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto - a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to money, drugs and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the US/Mexican border.… Expand

Director: Shaul Schwarz

Genre(s): Documentary, News

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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RogerEbert.com Steven Boone

Nov 22, 2013

Just over the Mexico/U.S. border from Juarez is El Paso, Texas, ranked the safest large city in America three years in a row now. The question that that fact begs is in part why this film is a quietly subversive masterpiece. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Dec 13, 2013

Interviewed in the film, Juárez journalist Sandra Rodriguez offers up this grim summation: “That these people represent the ideal of success, impunity, and limitless power is symptomatic of how defeated we are as a society.” Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Nov 19, 2013

Schwarz's juxtaposition of the human cost of the drug war alongside the glamorization of its henchmen and their brutality is sobering, even depressing. Read full review

David Fear

Nov 19, 2013

Ping-ponging between grisly South of the Border carnage and Angeleno musician Edgar Quintero’s growing success as one of the subgenre’s stars, you start to see how this parasitic relationship works. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Dec 5, 2013

What this film does is reveal two very different societies — both exhibiting, each in its own way, unmistakable signs of collapse. Read full review

Tomas Hachard

Nov 18, 2013

Director Shaul Schwarz, sans judgment, presents us with two men who epitomize how accepted and engrained narco culture has become in Mexico. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Nov 21, 2013

The dissection and discussion, though well-intentioned, winds up lifeless. Read full review

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rebelmswar

Sep 23, 2015

If you are not a fan of the very chipper sounding noise of the Mexican version of gangsta rap this will be torturous. It failed to hold my attention enough to suffer through the overbearing music; its about something that seems beyond ridiculous celebrating something that is quite horrific.

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