Bring Me the Head Of Alfredo Garcia
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In Theaters : 1974
Video Release : 26 May, 1995 |
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Peckinpah's dark Mexican road trip.
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"I think I can feel Sam Peckinpah's heart beating and head pounding in every frame in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"--Roger Ebert.
Sam Peckinpah's 1974 low budget film, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (TrA iganme la cabeza de Alfredo GarcA a), followed his 1973 western, [[ASIN:B000BT96DC Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid]]. It is often referred to as his "darkest" work. Certainly, Peckinpah's demons are evident in this film. Alcohol. Despair. Defiance. Warren Oates plays Bennie, an American gringo piano player living a dead-end existence in a Mexican brothel, who decides to collect a million dollar bounty set by a Mexican land baron (El Jefe, played by Emilio Fernandez) on the head of Alfredo Garcia, the man who seduced and impregnated his daughter. Although the gritty film was universally panned (or perhaps the more accurate word is "reviled") by critics upon its release, it has since become a Peckinpah cult favorite. Much of the film consists of a desolate Mexican road trip on which Benny talks to a severed head he calls "Al." He carries it with him in a gunny sack. Beautiful Isela Vega plays Benny's whore/girlfriend, Elita, who is world weary in one scene, and then as innocent as a child in the next. There is no happily-ever-after in this film; it ends in a violent rampage. Not a film that will change your life, but it is nevertheless recommended as a rare, bizarre, extraordinary film experience.
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