The Air I Breathe

This allegory is just hot air with a few laughs

We all know pretty much what we're in for when a private equity-funded gangster movie bills itself as a collection of interlocking "fables" inspired by a Chinese proverb, right? I mean, we could just leave it at that?
"The Air I Breathe," a first feature directed by commercial and music video director Jieho Lee, assigns one of the four key emotions -- which, according to the aforementioned proverb, consist of happiness, sorrow, pleasure and love -- to four characters whose lives intersect over a couple of days in a large city that turns out to be a not entirely unacknowledged but weirdly under-explained Mexico City. [...]

di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (3709 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 gennaio 2008