Posted AT 4:21 AM EDT on 24/02/06
Into a strange and beguiling place
RICK GROEN
From Friday's Globe and Mail
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
***
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Written by Guillermo Arriaga
Starring Tommy Lee Jones,
Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo
Classification: 14A
What a strange and strangely compelling movie this is. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada opens with the prominent appearance of a fresh corpse and closes on the sight of that same corpse gone visibly stale.
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