Review: 'This Is Not Berlin' vividly conjures a bygone Mexican counterculture
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Aug 23, 2019
3 minutes
The exuberant Mexican drama "This Is Not Berlin" opens with a quote from Proust and a blast of raucous misfit energy: It's like a promise that we are about to see a memory broken open and poured out onscreen, raw and unfiltered. In the opening scene, boys from rival schools are locked in an afternoon brawl, while Carlos (Xabiani Ponce de Leon), a 17-year-old with a magnetic gaze and a resplendent mane, stands looking bored in the middle of the action. He doesn't
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