If the key to price in real estate is “location, location, location,” the key to success in verite-style documentaries is “access, access, access.” Which is what “Cartel Land” has in compelling amounts. Like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the hellish morass that is the drug war in Mexico has resulted in numerous documentaries, including such recent efforts as “Narco Cultura” and “Western.” “Cartel Land” is one of the most involving (and a double prize winner at Sundance) because of where it’s managed to go and what it’s managed to show us. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman (he directed, co-edited and was the main cinematographer) says in a statement that “it took many months to gain the trust and to gain the access that I needed to tell this story.” The individuals he is talking about are “Cartel Land’s” twin protagonists, vigilantes from two different countries and two different cultures who are determined, each in his own way, to fight back against the endemic violence the Mexican drug cartels bring to everything they touch. Jose Mireles lives and works in the belly of the beast, the Mexican state of Michoacan, where taking on the cartels seemed to him and those around him like the only way to stay alive. Tim “Nailer” Foley is an American living in Arizona’s Altar Valley, and his fear of the cartels extending their influence in the United States has elements of suspicion of the federal government and opposition to illegal immigration, which he believes the cartels have a hand in. After Heineman (whose first film was the excellent but quite different “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare”) spent months winning trust, he spent a similar amount of time filming and observing.Read more on NewsOK.com
Movie Review: ‘cartel Land’ Goes Deep Inside Vigilantes’ Fight On Both Sides Of Mexico-u.s. Drug War
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