Los últimos cristeros

Mexico, Netherlands · 2011
1h 29m
Director Matías Meyer
Starring
Genre

The plot occurs around 1925 in Mexico when the Mexican government decides to severely restrict religious freedoms. It is the story of a few rebels, The Cristeros that fight for the right to freely and publicly practice their Catholic faith. The movie follows a few of those rebels with their doubts and their struggles. The movie is loosely based on true historical facts.

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Slant Magazine by

The film forsakes most of the underdog sentimentality found in traditional genre treatments of noble sacrifice.

Village Voice by Aaron Cutler

A war film consumed with waiting.

The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

Mr. Meyer adheres to a cinema of broad experience by casting rugged but uninspiring nonprofessionals and focusing on the rebels’ long, lonely struggle rather than on triumph and tactics.

Variety by Robert Koehler

The final days of a band of 1930s Christian rebels in the central Mexican wilderness are depicted with majestic stoicism in Matias Meyer’s elegant ode to independence.