Fish-out-of-water relationship dramedy in which the fish is a blissfully self-centered actor (played with boyish charm by Gael García Bernal), the water he’s out of is Mexico City, and the dry land upon which he is flopping and gasping is the Iowa Writers Workshop, where his frustrated wife (Verónica Echegui) has fled for a little self-fulfillment, aesthetic and otherwise. “Dramedy” is actually something of a misnomer, since the comedy inherent in the setup (hot-blooded Latino jealously pursuing his woman through the thickets of literary theory and artistic transmutation) is almost entirely neglected. (Instead, our hero hides out from a stiffed cabbie and brags about bull’s penis tacos to the horrified local yokels.) But it’s too slight and simple to be a straight-up drama. Maybe a bawdy ballad? She climbed the Pole’s willy/ but I spanked her silly/ and now we are happy again! It might have helped if director Roberto Sneider had let his female lead be something more than the pretty thing doing the figurative killing mentioned in the title. (2016) — Matthew Lickona
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