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I’m Gonna Explode / Voy a explotar Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Gerardo Naranjo, Country: Mexico, Release: 2008, Runtime: 106 Was this the movie we secretly wanted to live? Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo hits his stride and promptly accelerates with this boldly hectic youth film. I’m Gonna Explode is a mood-shifting mock epic that channels Pierrot le fou complete with Georges Delerue music, albeit transposing the myth of the Last Romantic Couple to an upper middle-class Mexico City exurb. Ramon, the son of a sleazy right-wing congressman, contributes to his new high school’s talent show by ineptly attempting to hang himself on stage. Maru is the only one who claps. They bond in detention, and then it’s off in a stolen Volkswagen with daddy’s gun to the end of the night… or something like that. Absurdist and ultimately heartbreaking, I’m Gonna Explode is further proof of Mexican cinema’s ongoing vitality, a prime example of its nuevo nouvelle vague. Preceded by This is Her: Narrating from a perfect moment in the present, Evie reveals the unexpected outcomes of her life, all of which came thanks to a six-year-old girl she passed one day on the sidewalk. Katie Wolfe, New Zealand, 2008; 12m. Gerardo Naranjo b. 1971, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico 2006 Drama/Mex 2004 Malachance

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