Perdita Durango [Blu-ray]

Director: Álex de la Iglesia Álex de la Iglesia

Overview

The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is pure trash, a fact she establishes at the film's beginning. Her adventures begin when she hooks up with Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), a sleek, black-clad, sexually adventurous practitioner of Santeria who routinely kills, robs banks, and steals corpses from graves for his cannibalistic blood-soaked rituals. Santos (Don Stroud) is a pedophile and a crime boss. He hires Romeo to steal a truck filled with human fetuses that are slated to be used for cosmetic experiments. Romeo accepts but feels he must make a human sacrifice before he goes. This bothers Perdita not a bit and she even picks out a pair of blonde teens for the ritual killing. The two crooks kidnap the kids, ritually feather them, sexually abuse them, and are preparing to kill them when Romeo's cheated partner shows up with policemen. The crooks and their prey manage to escape, but the scheme to commandeer the truck gets botched and an ensuing shootout between Santos' men and DEA agents goes wrong. Santos loses many men and swears revenge upon Romeo and Perdita, who continue on their journey with their two doomed victims.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/30/2021
UPC:	0760137473381
Original Release:	1997
Source:	Severin
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:10:00

Special Features

1080p Full HD Resolution; On the border - interview with director Alex de Iglesia; Writing Perdita Durango - interview with writer Barry Gifford; Dancing with the devil - an appraisal by film scholar Dr. Rebekah McKendry; Narcosatanicos: Perdita Durango and the matamoros cult - interview with Abraham Castillo Flores and 'Cauldron of Blood' author Jim Schutze; Canciones de Amor Maldito: the music of Perdita Durango - interview with composer Simon Boswell; Shooting Perdita Durango - interview with director of photography Flavio Labiano; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Rosie Perez	Perdita Durango
Javier Bardem	Romeo Dolorosa,Reggie
Harley Cross	Duane
Aimee Graham	Estelle
James Gandolfini	Woody Dumas
Demián Bichir	Actor
Santiago Segura	Shorty Dee
Alex Cox	Agent Doyle
Harry Porter	Actor
Carlos Arau	Actor
Regina Orozco	Actor
Roger Cudney	Actor
Erika Carlson	Actor
William G. Stamper	Actor
Gabriel Berthier	Actor
César Rodríguez	Actor
David Villalpando	Actor
Forrie J. Smith	Actor
Paco Pharrez	Actor
Will 'Nahkohe' Strickland	Actor
Miguel Iglesias	Actor
Dewey Kellogg	Actor
Marco Bacuzzi	Actor
Abel Woolrich	Actor
James Gooden	Actor
Emily Blanton	Actor
Maya Zapata	Actor,Actor
Salvador Gómez	Actor
Kenny Jacobs	Actor
Pam Risner	Actor
Katie Barbieri	Actor
Norma Stone	Actor
Gerardo 'Chiquilín' Zepeda	Actor
Lazaro Paterson	Actor
Jessie Faller	Actor
Adelina Sinohui	Actor
Roberto López	Actor
Paul Dapra	Actor
Craig Vincent	Actor
Steve Kennedy	Actor
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Adolfo
Miguel Galván	Doug
Erika Carlsson	Glory Ann
Josefina Echánove	Romeos Großmutter
Andaluz Russell	Juana
Cheli Godínez	Vicky
Katie Barberi	Stewardess
Don Stroud	Santos
Simon Boswell	Composer

Technical Credits

Álex de la Iglesia

Barry Gifford

David Trueba

Jorge Guerricaechevarría

Álex de la Iglesia	Director,Screenwriter
Nicole Arbusto	Casting
Pablo Barbachano	Executive Producer
Fernando Bovaira	Executive Producer
Julian Bucio	Stunts
Joy Dickson	Casting
Andrés Vicente Gómez	Producer
Danny Lester	Special Effects
Miguel Necoechea	Executive Producer
Pablo Núñez	Special Effects
Max Rosenberg	Executive Producer
David Sanders	Stunts
Jim Wheelock	Special Effects
Barry Gifford	Screenwriter
David Trueba	Screenwriter
Jorge Guerricaechevarría	Screenwriter
L2 Entertainment	Special Effects
Juan Prieto	Sound/Sound Designer
Salvador de la Fuente	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Serving as an interesting companion piece to David Lynch's hyper-charged, surrealistic epic Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also co-written by Wild at Heart scribe Barry Gifford) expands on some of the characters introduced in Lynch's film, and takes those characters on an equally kinetic and bizarre journey through the dark underworld of wild debauchery, reckless abandon, and Santeria. Though likely to polarize viewers who feel that similar studies in violence such as Natural Born Killers simply glorify the revolting acts they attempt to satirize, director Alex de la Iglesia's exploration in cultural isolation and constant sense of self-conscious irony makes it difficult to see as an endorsement of the acts it portrays. An excruciatingly exhausting barrage of stimulus and symbolism, shifting from cartoonishly hallucinogenic to all-too-real violence, Perdita Durango is embroidered throughout with De la Iglesia's trademark black humor, often forcing the viewer to cringe and laugh simultaneously.