Flora

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.

Cast

Gabino Rodríguez

Hombre con peluca / Narrador

Luisa Pardo

Mujer en cuarto de hotel / Mujer con peluca

Francisco Barreiro

Hombre a quien le roban la motocicleta

José Rodríguez López

Hombre que maneja camioneta roja

Teresa Sánchez

Mujer que atiende en el bar

Fernando Álvarez Rebeil

Hijo del dueño de la mina / Ladrón de motocicleta