Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo (“Drama/Mex”) channels 60s-era Godard in his latest, “I’m Gonna Explode,” which opens today for a week-long run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

"I'm Gonna Explode" is a punchy exploration of unattributable teenage angst that expands the usually male view of "Rebel Without a Cause"-type dramas. Nicholas Ray meets Jean-Luc Godard in “I’m Gonna ...

Film journals aside, the 50th anniversary of the nouvelle vague—which might have been celebrated last year for The 400 Blows or this year for Breathless—passed with remarkably little fanfare. No ...

A girl, a number of guns, also some cars: recombining knowingly archetypal elements from Gerardo Naranjo’s first two features, Drama/Mex and I’m Gonna Explode, Kokoloko is delightfully loose and ...

Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, ...

Godardian teenage angst paean or super-sized Keystone Cops episode? Or perhaps Gerardo Naranjo’s I’m Gonna Explode is just an unholy mix of both. In the film, two teenagers from Guanajuato, Mexico, ...

Transferred to a new high school, a conservative politician’s rebellious son (Juan Pablo de Santiago) introduces himself to the student body with a talent-show sketch, titled “See You in Hell,” in ...

Boldly transposing Pierrot le Fou to a Mexico City suburb, Gerardo Naranjo’s self-consciously triumphantly tragicomic third feature puts a pair of disaffected high-school students on the road to ...

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