The need to move becomes more than just a dance impulse to the young leader of a close-knit but threatened Monterrey, Mexico counterculture in Fernando Frias de la Parra’s sensitive, beautifully filmed and music-laden “I’m No Longer Here,” a cinematic duet of rhythm and rootlessness that is also Mexico’s entry for this year’sToggling between the communally strong but violence-ridden hills of Northern Mexico and the confounding maze of cultures that is New York to a reluctant transplant, Frias’...
Frias has a powerful, specific cultural lens too, through which to tell this tale: the youth-driven Cholombiano sub-culture of Monterrey that flourished at the turn of the 2010s, a home-brewed blend of purposefully slowed-down cumbias , expressive sartorial cues from the boldly patterned and baggy cholo aesthetic, and severely shaped hairstyles emphasizing the shaved, the gelled, the tufted, the highlighted and the sharply banged.
When we first meet the stoic, slightly built Ulises — at the turning point of his life, saying goodbye to his friend Chaparra on a lonely stretch of road before getting into a stranger’s car to make his journey to the United States — the colorful rigor of his fashion-conscious look seems out of step with a moment hardly worth celebrating.
As Frias continues to parallelize his narrative between America and Mexico, the two strands begin to feel less like jumps in time than a dialectic about alienation and connection, color and darkness.
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