Michel Franco's 'Sundown' premieres at Venice 78

Michel Franco's film 'Sundown' premiered in competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The film stars Tim Roth as Neil Bennett, a wealthy London heir to a pork empire who witnesses a murder on a beach in Acapulco without reacting. Set in a violent, divided Mexico, the story follows Neil's existential drift as he abandons his family after his mother's death, seeking a new identity. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays his sister Alice. Franco uses the backdrop of social inequality and drug violence to explore themes of solitude, choice, and the impossibility of communication. The film runs 83 minutes and is described as a compassionate portrait of a man's rebirth and decline. Critic Carlotta Petracci reviewed the film for Artribune, highlighting its prismatic reflection on life and death.