Watch now. Title: The Tiger of Santa Julia Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by Governor Vargas worried about Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension.
But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. During the last holidays together, we see life Gabriel Demian Bichir is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation An impossible love story between tow students who lived the controversial Mexico's student movement of An army deserter turned bandit robs from thieves to give the money to the poor.
He was famous for being caught by the police "with his pants down". And all this films have one thing in common: they feature mostly TV starlets; this means they can't hardly act, beyond soap opera's performances. Well then, apparently with El tigre de Santa Julia Gamboa tried to turn on a wilder side maybe in sake for his filmography.
He didn't make it. But, it seems that the whole story is only waiting for that event to happen, and constructed a lame screenplay on it's way for it. In result, we have a film with no climax, and not capable to create in us any root of interest for the people involved. Besides, the story is not that close to what some researchers have disclosed about the myth of the guy who became an outlaw. One more thing is that Gamboa once said that the aesthetics in the film are intentional in order to make it look like a comic book.
Bad choice. The computer manipulated skies and open fields looks silly and aged, rather than extracted from a comics atmosphere; and I sure have seen good works on this subject -just take as an example The unbreakable, or Dobermann. In resume, El tigre de Santa Julia doesn't deliver what it promises; there ain't no action, no humor and even less climax.
