Description Tommy Lee Jones takes his second turn in the director's chair with THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA, the follow-up to his 1995 western THE GOOD OLD BOYS. The action takes place on the border between West Texas and Northern Chihuahua in Mexico, which is a hot spot for illegal crossings. But Jones' movie ingeniously flips this dangerous yet all-too-common practice on its head, with a tale of a man hell-bent on crossing the border in the opposite direction. The journey to Mexico begins when Pete Perkins (Jones) uncovers the identity of a Border Patrolman, Mike Norton (Barry Pepper), who has shot and killed his best friend, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo). Kidnapping Norton and forcing him to dig up Estrada's body, Perkins straps the corpse to a horse, and informs Norton that he will be travelling with them to Mexico.

Download The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo - ETTV torrents. Adventure, crime. Director: Tommy Lee Jones [Director]. A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the.

Once there, they will bury Estrada according to instructions he gave Perkins prior to his death. Jones paints Norton as a mean-spirited individual; caught up in a loveless relationship with his wife, Lou Ann (January Jones), Norton's day job frequently involves him either exploding in a violent rage or idly masturbating over a well-thumbed copy of Hustler. The two men don't exactly bond on their journey, the wedge that's been forced between them being far too great for them to reconcile their differences. But Jones coerces a riveting tale from Guillermo Arriaga script, with a choppy chronology reminiscent of Arriaga's own 21 GRAMS. Comparisons to Sam Peckinpah's masterfully bleak 1974 movie BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA are inevitable, although Jones' film has a tender edge that Peckinpah's nihilistic epic was never quite capable of reaching. Mini ilda show laser software free.

A film that suggests Jones has a bright future ahead of him as a director, THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA is one of the most absorbing pieces of cinema to emerge in 2005. Credits Leading Role 1 Tommy Lee Jones Director 1 Tommy Lee Jones Leading Role 2 Barry Pepper Leading Role 3 Dwight Yoakam Additional Roles by January Jones, Julio Cedillo Producer Chris Menges, Michael Fitzgerald Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga Jordan Score Composer Marco Beltrami Features Release Format DVD Rating 15 Release Year 2006 Genre Westerns Language English Running Time 116 minutes EAN 968. Well worth seeking out. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Directed by and Starring Tommy Lee Jones. I have to confess this film passed me by when it was first released in 2006. It was brought to my attention by my cyber chums on the bulletin boards on the big betting exchange under a thread of “Great films you might have missed”. It’s a western, but set in the present day, located on the Mexican-American border.

Tommy Lee Jones’s drinking and whoring pal, a Mexican cowboy is shot dead and hastily buried in a shallow grave. Tommy’s character, Pete Perkins, sets out to track down and punish the murderer who just happens to be an over zealous Border Patrol officer. He’s fortunate enough to possess a pretty wife (far too good for him) who, inevitably, seeks additional affection elsewhere, as her cold husband appears incapable of showing her any tenderness.

In the meantime the police have hastily re-buried the body – why not? Bel nume che adoro translation. He’s only a Mexican cowhand with no known relatives after all. Pete soon discovers the murderer and kidnaps him in order that he can dig up the body and the two of them set off for Mexico on some old mules, lugging the decomposing body, across hard and dramatic terrain. This old-fashioned cross-country trek brings back memories of films from years ago. The Mexican had previously told Tommy of a wife and family back home residing in a Shangri-la type place in the mountains, and that’s where the are heading. Twists and turns follow aplenty as you might expect, yet this is not a fast paced film, and nor, despite the heavily armed cast intent on shooting anything and everything that moves, (would not the world be a better place without all these weapons?

It aint rocket science!) and neither is it an American all action movie either. But it is a very good character-driven film that also brings to mind some of those old 60’s spaghetti westerns. Three Burials will not be everyone’s cup of tea, but a worthy effort it certainly is, and quite different to so many other trashy movies that sadly dominate the shop shelves. Well worth checking out. I enjoyed it.