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Early morning in the oat fields of Carranco, Ramón runs into the dead body of his secret teenage love Adela. After he covers her naked body with his shirt, the gossip in town is that Ramón's girlfriend is been found murdered. Meanwhile, the Gitano (the gypsy) has left Carranco after a night of love and sex with Gabriela, suddenly interrupted by a flash light of an unknown bearer. That night at the local bar, where Justino, the town sheriff and other regular costumers discuss what should be done, La Amistad, pointing his flashlight to them shouts "el gitano murdered the girl". Marcelino, a bitter old man pushes Ramón to avenge his "girlfriend"'s murder. Now Ramón will have to prove to the people in his town that he's now a man or leave the town in shame.

Héctor Alterio, Karra Elejalde, Diego Luna, and Ana Álvarez in A Sweet Scent of Death (1999)

Guillermo Arriaga&#39;s novel of the same title, served as the basis for this co-production about rural Mexican life. Mr. Arriaga supposedly disassociated himself from the production, which seemed the only thing to do. Edna Necoechea, the screen adapter, doesn&#39;t succeed in translating Mr. Arriaga&#39;s text into a successful movie. It doesn&#39;t help the misguided production insisted in casting non-Mexican actors for some of the key roles. The film deals with the tragic death of Adela, a lovely young woman, who we see at the beginning of the story as she comes to shop at the store where Ramon works. Ramon, who liked the girl, never has a chance to tell Adela how he feels about her because the next morning she appears dead in a field nearby. The action is complicated when most of the men in town want Ramon to avenge the girl of the young woman they thought was his girlfriend, when he wasn&#39;t even involved with Adela. This conflict is the center of the story as the men have decided it was Gitano who committed the murder, which was wrong. The film has some moments, but in general, director Gabriel Retes, doesn&#39;t succeed. Hector Alterio, who plays the sheriff, is from Argentina. He is a wonderful actor, but here, he is out of his element. Same goes for Karra Ejalde, a Spaniard, who also appears to be wrong as the man everyone has condemned to die. Diego Luna has some good moments in the film. Talk about product placement, Corona beer, is seen in most scenes as the beer of choice, as it&#39;s shown prominently throughout the film. Let&#39;s hope the actors were really drinking those cool beers while acting.

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A Sweet Scent of Death

We don&#39;t get a lof of Mexican movies here in Austria, so this gives an interesting view on that country: After his wannabe-girlfriend is found naked dead, a 16-year-old boy has to face the macho-tradition of getting even with her murderer. A victim for the blame is quickly found in a traveling criminal who gets on very well with the women in the village. Only the local senior inspector is still searching for the truth... Great characters, especially the inspector who has to deal with his own corrupt colleagues, and in every scene there is at least one corona bottle! Apart from that average story, I&#39;ll give it a 7/10.

This movie is basically a tele-novelization of Guillermo Arriaga&#39;s book &quot;Un Dulce Olor a Muerte&quot; (English translation available in the UK), and a movie which the author (also screenwriter of Amores Perros and 21 Grams) has rightly disavowed. Its poor acting and unauthentic portrayal of rural Mexico are a disgrace to Arriaga&#39;s novel. The makers of this movie failed to recognize ALL of the important literary themes in Arriaga&#39;s book - namely the visceral response and repulsion of death, and the impossible dead end/catch-22 of postmodern existence - themes which Arriaga continued to examine in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. Please promise me that you will never see this movie and instead will do the following: A) read the novel or B) go and watch Amores Perros but preferably C) do both.

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