Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
Acting
Rodolfo de Anda's slippery charm masks genuine menace.
Cinematography
Vineyard beauty contrasts with creeping moral ugliness.
Director
Gilberto Gazcón
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gilberto Gazcón directed over 40 films in three decades, mostly lurid crime dramas the Mexican industry quietly buried.
El Cínico belongs to a forgotten wave of Mexican noir that mixed Hollywood influences with local class anxieties — most prints are deteriorating.
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