Go minus
This movie is beyond categorizing — as dark or political or racial, or anything else.
Beatriz (Selma Hayek) keeps dogs and goats in the city, to the understandable annoyance of her neighbor, whom she accuses of killing one of the goats. The dashboard on her car has both a Buddha and a crucifix. When she lists her professional healing skills, I began to wonder if she was delusional because she reels off a substantial list that includes massage, Reiki, and Rolfing. The script presents her as an exquisitely sensitive individual, but her sensitivity does not carry over to actions toward the people she meets, or apparently bring much understanding of human nature. The idea of bearing love toward humanity is– well, let’s just say that “love thy neighbor” is not in her actions either.

She is humorless, as if her sensitivity is too pure to allow tolerance into her heart, let alone forgiveness. She has little self-control, not with drinking, nor even with managing basic courtesy when you’re a guest in someone’s home. She controls her emotions to the extent that she only imagines murdering the real estate mogul (John Lithgow), but not enough to prevent her own suicide.

Go at your own risk.