Just saw Netflix's new Mexican feature Ya no estoy aquí/I'm No Longer Here and not sure about the praise from respected critics like @f_solorzano @diazdelavega1 Here's the trailer

2 I love the hair and costume design of the film's subculture (Ulises el Regio, Cindy's very distant cousin?)

3 I love the otherworldly Monterrey locations (the New York ones are more blah). Why don't see (and hear) more from this huge city, so distant from CDMX in all ways?

4 I hate the impassivity of non-professional actors, petrified by the camera. The main character keeps up this expression for two hours. (Wait til after the credits and you'll see more life and humor in two minutes of auditions than in the film itself.)

5 I hate the tedium of sitting through long conversations with people who don't know each other's languages, even looking up individual words in dictionaries. 3 million Spanish speakers in NY and Uises barely meets them. And that smart ChineseUS girl deserved a smarter boyfriend.

6 I appreciate Monterrey and New York are for once not shown as hell on earth. & gangs can be about music not drugs. But this film regresses to old school social realism like La jaula de oro: 'It's an important issue so it's an important film.' And the dialogue is SO REPETITIVE.

7 This youtube is of a NY photographer documenting the same subculture. Some of the locations are the same as in the film. Start ten minutes in for Monterrey. It's from 2012.