About as unpretentious as they come, BOMBON: EL PERRO is a nice little road movie. When the real star of the movie ("Bombon") puts in his first appearance, it's clear that HE is now The Star. My favorite scene in the entire movie comes early in the going, when Bombon takes his Person for a ride. It's a wide shot that drifts back and forth between El Perro and his Person. There's nothing particularly noteworthy happening in the scene, it's just a back and forth shot showing the two principals sitting side by side in the cab of the truck- but it speaks volumes, in ways that Hollywood films rarely (if ever) do. Genius is in the details, we've been told; in BOMBON, the details MAKE the movie (and the ending is, indeed, a fitting climax)...
Review of Bombón: El Perro
