The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)

Original title

La dictadura perfecta

Directed by

Luis Estrada

Genre

comedy film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

2h 23m

Rated

B-15

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 209 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In this black comedy a news network manipulates coverage to help a political candidate. The story follows media executives and politicians as they collude to shape public opinion during a Mexican election.

satiricaldarkly comicfast-pacedcynicalwrypolitically chargedslyprovocative

What happens

La dictadura perfecta (English: The Perfect Dictatorship) is a 2014 Mexican black comedy political satire film, written, produced and directed by Luis Estrada and starring Damián Alcázar, Alfonso Herrera, Joaquín Cosío, Dagoberto Gama, María Rojo and Salvador Sánchez. Cast also includes Osvaldo Benavides, Saúl Lisazo, Tony Dalton, Arath de la Torre, Sergio Mayer and Itatí Cantoral. It was released on October 16, 2014, and represented Mexico at the 2015 Goya Awards. The film title is a reference to a famous statement by Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa that he used to describe the continuous governments of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which dominated politics in Mexico for much of the 20th century. The plot is loosely based on the real life perceived Televisa controversy, which consisted of Mexican citizens heavily perceiving the news media was unfairly favoring PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto during the 2012 presidential election in Mexico. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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