Highway Patrolman

Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the... Read more

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Highway Patrolman

Directed by Alex Cox

Year: 1991
Running Time: 104
Color Type: Color
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Genres: Drama, Action
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Highway Patrolman

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Directed by Alex Cox
Writer Lorenzo O'Brien


Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a department rife with corruption. This is a new 4K restoration overseen by the director.

Reviews

"[A] gringo valentine. Dark comedy. Part road movie, part western. A pungent mix of existential grunge."
- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
 
"The [real] Highway Patrol weren't exactly keen on us telling the authentic story of one of their operatives, so our production designer, Cecilia Montiel, invented a fictitious police force, complete with cars, logos, badges and uniforms... I used to think it was about the impossibility of doing good. But now I think it's really about the impossibility of imposing goodness on others. Today it can be seen as a film about the drug war, of course - a Mexican film genre in itself."
- Alex Cox
 
"While it rightly skewers American hypocrisy and complicity in Mexican drug- trafficking, [it] abounds in the timeless virtues of traditional Filmmaking... There is an epic quality to the hero's odyssey that recalls the Westerns of John Ford and such John Huston films as Treasure of the Sierra Madre... A beautiful, gritty film, steeped in the atmosphere of vast, desert-like vistas slashed by highways sizzling in the heat."
- Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times

"The beautiful but arid landscape of north central Mexico is almost as much a character as Pedro, whom Mr. Sosa portrays in a performance that is at once strong and unassuming."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
 
"A beautifully observed, morally intelligent film."
- Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
 
"The hero is a young idealist fresh out of the police academy in Mexico City, ordered to a post in a mountainous, fir-treed outback where corruption reigns supreme.  No one can tread these grounds untouched, not even him.  The performances throughout are intelligent, understated.  There's a nervy moment of stylish flourish when Cox's floating steadicam [sic -- read CAMERA] accompanies our hero, bloodied and limping, down a stretch of highway, midway though his life's defining gun battle -- but for the most part Cox's calm, feline gaze never judges or reproaches, never telegraphs to us what we're supposed to feel about what we're looking at.  HIGHWAY PATROLMAN is an astonishing, mature piece of work.  It's like a Bresson film with a rock & roll pulse."
- F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly
 
"Maybe the best film of Cannes 1992. Beautiful, wacky, utterly self-assured. A subtle comedy of errors."
- Georgia Brown, The Village Voice

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Roberto Sosa as Pedro and Vanessa Bauche as Maribel in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa is the HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, a film by Alex Cox.
Bruno Bichir as Anibal and Roberto Sosa as Pedro in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa as Pedro in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa as Pedro and Vanessa Bauche as Maribel in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Comandante Navarro (Ernesto Gómez Cruz) reprimands rookie patrolman Pedro (Roberto Sosa) in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
As the HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, Pedro (Roberto Sosa) must deal with all manner of infractions in Alex Cox's drama.
Roberto Sosa as Pedro and Vanessa Bauche as Maribel in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa as the HIGHWAY PATROLMAN confronts a suspect in Alex Cox's 1991 drama.
Roberto Sosa in the title role of Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa in the title role of Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN was shot entirely on Mexican locations by cinematographer Miguel Garzón.
Bruno Bichir as Anibal and Roberto Sosa as Pedro in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa in the title role of Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as Sargento Barreras and Roberto Sosa as Pedro in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa is the HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, a film by Alex Cox.
Roberto Sosa as Pedro and Vanessa Bauche as Maribel in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Bruno Bichir as Anibal in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez as Griselda and Roberto Sosa as Pedro in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
A harrowing scene, featuring Roberto Sosa and Towi Islas, in Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.
Roberto Sosa is the HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, a film by Alex Cox.
Roberto Sosa in the title role of Alex Cox's HIGHWAY PATROLMAN.

PLAYDATES

Venue City Date
Ashland Independent Film Festival Ashland 1554955200April 11, 2019
Apohadion Theater Portland 1553659200March 27, 2019
Amherst Cinema Amherst 1549602000February 8, 2019
Alamo Ritz Austin 1548651600January 28, 2019
Austin Film Society Austin 15466644001/5, 1/9
Brattle Theatre Cambridge 1546578000January 4 - January 5, 2019
Film Forum New York 1543554000November 30 - December 6, 2018


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