‘Sujo’ Review: A Darkly Lyrical Portrait of the Systems That Force Mexican Men Into the Drug Wars

‘Sujo’ Review: A Darkly Lyrical Portrait of the Systems That Force Mexican Men Into the Drug Wars

For the larger part of the last two decades, Mexican cinema has been over saturated with hard-to-stomach chronicles of the monstrous drug violence ravaging the country, but no one is approaching such darkness with the layered sensibility and aesthetic poetry of directors Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero. Proven by their soul-shattering and award-winning previous collaboration, “Identifying Features” (which Valadez directed and Rondero co-wrot…