Latin Film Beat: Venice Confronted by Violence, Terrorism, and Peter Fonda

Veteran Mexican director Paul Leduc intends El Cobrador, In God We Trust to be a provocation.

According to Variety, it's a "potentially polemical political drama [that] toplines Peter Fonda as [Mr. X], a well-heeled but unhinged mining corporation exec who gets a thrill from running down pedestrians at night and Lazaro Ramos as a terrorist who exacts revenge on the affluent West in the name of the downtrodden third world."

The multi-lingual film is based on stories by Rubem Fonseca. At least one writer thinks it will generate debate (in Spanish only). The dictionary translation for El Cobrador is "The Collector," but the official web site argues for other meanings.

It screened yesterday and will screen again tomorrow at the Venice Film Festival in the Horizons section. Such a dynamic premise makes me anxious to hear more about it.

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