Federico Luppi, Damiàn Delgado
With this provocative, powerful movie, director-writer John Sayles (Lone Star) upholds his reputation as America's most independent of independent filmmakers. For Men with Guns is shot almost entirely in Spanish and native Indian dialects (but with English subtitles). The movie follows a patrician doctor (Luppi) in an unnamed Latin American country as he slowly, while searching for students he trained some years back, comes to realize just how little he knew about what was really going on in his native land. Everywhere he travels, he hears tales of "men with guns" who have killed innocent people, including his students. Along the way, he befriends a boy who has seen far too much dying and an army deserter who is having trouble living with what he has done. The doctor's journey into the torn heart of his country and to knowledge is both moving and chilling. Sayles sails on. (R)
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