Finished Friday with a bit of a shaggy dog movie from Guatemala about a marimba player who, in order to pay an unspecified extortion fee to someone else, decides that the route to freedom involves hitching himself to a heavy metal band.
It was an odd little film very underplayed by its non-professional cast but it did have some moments of sublime comedy. If anything, they stayed away from pushing the incongruity of the marimba and a traditional metal band -- if this was a Hollywood film, this would have probably ended up at a festival with thousands of screaming fans and pyrotechnics of KISS army proportions (I think I prefer the Central American approach.
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