Hippies with daddy issues become kidnappers—1970s Mexican cinema at its most unhinged.
Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father throws him out of his house. Ál leaves his girlfriend Laura for his lover, the married Adriana. Out of money Gato and Ál becomes urban guerrilla when they plan to kidnap Gato's rich father.
Direction
Burns' satirical eye on privileged revolutionaries.
Cinematography
Gritty 70s Mexico City capturing decaying idealism.
Acting
Peluffo's Adriana—chaotic, magnetic, utterly unhinged.
Director
Archibaldo Burns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burns was part of Mexico's 'Nuevo Cine' movement, using genre trappings to critique middle-class radical chic—this predates the actual Tlatelolco student massacre's full cultural reckoning.
The film's title roughly translates to 'The Blowout' or 'The Binge'—equally suggesting partying and implosion, which basically summarizes the entire plot.
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