Fernando Palavicini

Revisiting the real-life events behind the cult movie The Honeymoon Killers, Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein—who started his career as an unbilled assistant to Luis Buñuel—mixes comedy with horror in this bold, whimsical tale of sex and murder. Starring Pedro Almodóvar’s regular, Marisa Paredes!

A professional assassin goes on the run after killing his underworld employer and mistakenly looks for a safe haven within the double-crossing CIA.