Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia is turgid melodrama [from a story by Frank Kowalski and Sam Peckinpah] at its worst.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
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Mexico, United States · 1974
Rated R · 1h 53m
Director Sam Peckinpah
Starring Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
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Bennie is an American bartender living in Mexico City with his girlfriend. He decides to go on a trip through the criminal underworld to retrieve the corpse of a man and receive the bounty that was placed on the man's head after angering a crime lord.
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Bleak brilliance.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Certainly one of the director's most personal and obsessive works—even comparable in some respects to Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano in its bottomless despair and bombastic self-hatred, as well as its rather ghoulish lyricism.
The honesty behind Garcia's queasiest moments gives the film its pull.
Slant Magazine by Nick Schager
Like few modern films, Alfredo Garcia seems to not only be a product of a director’s singular vision, but a virtual window into one man’s fractured, tortured soul.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is Sam Peckinpah making movies flat out, giving us a desperate character he clearly loves, and asking us to somehow see past the horror and the blood to the sad poem he's trying to write about the human condition.
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