10 · 25 · 24 The 22nd FICM Presented a Remastered Version of Alejandro Lozano's MATANDO CABOS 20 Years After Its Premiere Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard The 22nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) celebrated the 20th anniversary of Matando Cabos (2004) with a screening of the remastered version of Alejandro Lozano's debut film. Present at the screening were the director and Tony Dalton, co-writer and star of the film.“Films mark lives, and you can like them or not, but it's time that gives them this cult status, and that's why it's worth it. And 20 years later we are here celebrating one of the most important films of the Mexican industry of this century,” said journalist Carlos Gómez Iniesta at the presentation of the film.“If someone is a co-writer, it's me; Tony wrote this film and had this dream of making a movie that we wanted to see. I don't think we ever thought that 20 years later we would be presenting it at the first festival that gave us feel confident, which was Morelia; it was the first festival that told us 'we want this film,'” said Alejandro Lozano.In the course of one night, two young friends, Jaque and Mudo, live an unusual adventure. The two must find a way to return their boss, Óscar Cabos, home safely. The millionaire businessman and father of Jaque's girlfriend, Paulina, also happens to in the trunk of Jaque's car. At the same time, Botcha and his friend Nico attempt to kidnap Cabos, intending to ask for a large sum of money as ransom and avenge Botcha's father's humiliating past. However, there is a mix-up in the darkness and nothing goes as planned.The film, written by Lozano, Tony Dalton and Kristoff Raczynski, and produced by Lemon Studios -which was created with this film-, managed to become so popular that it gained cult status because it dug into the country's love of wrestling films, added humor and irreverence in the style of Quentin Tarantino and included action scenes which were unusual in Mexican cinema, including a car chase inside the Azteca Stadium. Its eccentricity and its characters are now part of the Mexican popular imagination, so much so that Silverio Palacios and Joaquín Cosío may be stars of Mexican cinema today, partly because of their unforgettable contributions to the film.Matando Cabos was not just a film, but an era in the lives of its viewers.
