This Mexican film, released here in the U.S. on July 11th, seems like an interesting interweaving of tales Amores Perros style plus Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are on board as executive producers. That was enough for me to lay down some cash this weekend to see DramaMex.

The x I call for on the film has nothing to do with the Mexican cursing and sexual content but, sadly, because of the film’s failure to ever come together as something cohesive and the overwhelming portrayal of violence against women. Fernanda, played by Diana Garcia, bears the brunt of the violence at the hands of her ex-lover, Chino and her boyfriend, Gonzalo. The second tale involves Jaime, a disgruntled office worker (I loved the scenes when he expressed his office angst) who may or may not be having a sexual relationship with his daughter and ends up in a beachfront hotel with a teen runaway/wannabe prostitute.

I spent most of the movie, which seems to drag a bit, waiting for all the hyperactive teenage drama to climax into some greater moral lesson but that never happened. While visually the film is lovely, with its beach side Acapulco setting I left the film feeling that I was too old for such adolescent telenovela melodrama.

Find out more at the film’s official website