May 15th
The Assassination of Richard Nixon*
US/Mexico 2004. Anhelo/Appian Way. 95m.

In 1974 an office furniture salesman on the skids loses control of his life and decides to take the ultimate revenge on the American establishment.
Uncomfortable study of a nobody (based in part on a true incident), harking back to the days of 70s dramas such as Taxi Driver as well as the more recent Falling Down, where the central character is already pretty unhinged from the beginning and goes further downhill from there. Character development is therefore a little waning, but the star's performance is predictably unsettling.

Written by: Kevin Kennedy, Niels Muller.
Producers: Alfonso Cuaron, Jorge Vergara.
Director: Niels Muller.
Starring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Williamson.
Photography: Emmanuel Lubezki.
Music: Steven M. Stern.

+ initially conceived in 1998 as a fictional drama, the producers subsequently discovered the remarkably similar true-life story of Samuel Byck, who attempted to hijack a jumbo jet and fly it into The White House - an eerie precedent of September 11th.