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...half-lit world of Guero lies somewhere between the last drink and the first hangover, between the rowdiness of the cantina and the dreaminess of the artist’s studio. In this strange border country, Beck, the “guero,” the white boy, holds court among the ghosts of his previous releases and the dysmorphic specters of cultural miscellany...
...third tale features the fantastic Clive Owen as Dwight, yet another mentally-addled hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film’s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...
This third story contains the only watchable female performances. Brittany Murphy is surprisingly effective as Shelley, Dwight’s girlfriend who is menaced by Jackie Boy. The other two women, a dominatrix named Gail (Rosario Dawson) and a spunky hooker played by Gilmore Girls’s Alexis Bledel, overact to the point of high-school-play foolishness. Still, their costumes are some of the best in the film: Dawson manages to look like an Amazon in fishnet bondage gear and Bledel is arresting with her green-tinted eyes and shining white crucifixes hanging from her neck and ears...
...prevent unwarranted postcards from Sin City, elders in the United States are constantly happy to play an unsolicited matchmaker to their children. My Grandma, for instance, frequently keeps me updated on the Nice Jewish Boy scene at Harvard. If one is in the market for more professional meddling, there are still Shadchen, Jewish ‘matchmakers’ who arrange marriages in more traditional Jewish communities...
Elkayali also spoke of his estrangement from his father, who he said was not allowed to return to his home in Gaza after leaving when Elkayali was a young boy...