Plot & Summary
Ricardo de Montreuil's Mancora is about as sexy as Peru has ever gotten on screen. set in Mancora, a surfing town at the northern end of the country, it features a dangerous love triangle and mixes in some hard partying and peyote to yield true watchability. Santiago, a failing college student in Lima, is stunned by his father's sudden suicide. Undone by the shock, he leaves school, kicks his girlfriend to the curb, and prepares his dad's vintage Mercedes for a journey to Mancora. Before he leaves, however, he meets up with his beautiful and sexy stepsister Ximena (Elsa Pataky), a photographer from New York, and her easily agitated husband Inigo (Enrique Murciano), who have just arrived in town. When Santiago tells them of his plans, they decide to come along for the ride. Ximena will take pictures, and Inigo will surf. Santiago and Ximena get really close really fast, and the dangerously temperamental Inigo doesn't fail to notice. After one final blowup during the trip, Inigo dumps the other two, and they proceed without him to Mancora, where the nightlife is full of tequila and temptation. Stopping by a street carnival on their first night out, Santiago finds himself in a brawl with a local tough whose girlfriend flirted with him. Once past that scare, Santiago and Ximena explore this town full of dissolute Peruvian partiers and sexual shenanigans, but despite all the distractions, the two focus mainly on each other. Stepsiblings or not, married or not, they're destined to do it on the beach. And then Inigo suddenly shows up, newly inspired to head out into the wilderness in search of a legendary shaman who can offer him the ultimate psychotropic trip. Santiago goes with him, and the danger quotient ratchets up significantly.Mancora is one of those arcane foreign indies that's worth watching simply because it's full of (good-looking) people you'd never otherwise meet who take you to a place you'd never otherwise go. It's a trip, in every sense of the word. Enrique Murciano is especially watchable. A live and supercharged wire, he's always on the verge of shooting off some serious sparks, and when his jealousy collides with Santiago's desire for Ximena, those sparks do indeed fly.
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