From the very beginning of Luis Ortega's "Los Santos Sucios", you know you are in for a different kind of film experience. The strange/bizarre futuristic music gives the images of rundown Argentina an interesting feel. The cinematography is nice, slow, and focused. And the beautiful cinematography is complimented by steady editing. Now, as far as the plot and the characters are concerned; there is a plot, but the film isn't about the plot, it is about the characters. The cast of characters is made up of a gay couple, an old bell ringer, a mute, a midget, and a crazy streetgirl named Monito (Spanish for little monkey). Something (you don't know what) has happened in the world and there are very few people left on Earth, and the film is about the six characters trying to will up the courage to cross a river that apparently is the key to their salvation and freedom. However, once they cross, all there is is a desert full of white sand. A true modern masterpiece and certainly one of the greatest foreign language films ever made. Ortega has a promising future ahead of him.
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