José René Ruiz’s Typical Vibe
2 films — brisk, dark, gentle, easy, playful

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CriticCrunch has 2 José René Ruiz titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Tres lancheros muy picudos.
Son las emocionantes aventuras de tres lancheros holgazanes en Acapulco. Cada uno de ellos se ve involucrado en diferentes problemas y tienen que salir huyendo a la ciudad de México. Ahí se esconden en la casa de unas amigas para evadir a los gangsters que los buscan solo que las muchachas resultan ser prostitutas y todo se complica. The exciting adventures of three men who drive boats in Acapulco. Each gets involved in different problems and all have to run away to Mexico City to elude the gangsters who are after them. They hide in the house of some lady friends who turn out to be "working girls" and things get really wild.
Dir. Adolfo Martínez Solares · With Alfonso Zayas, Hugo Stiglitz, Lina Santos

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Dir. John Huston · With Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews