Michel Franco

Michel Franco (born 1979) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer known for minimal, often stark dramas.

Franco is known for intimate, often bleak dramas that examine interpersonal power, social hypocrisy and marginalization. The reviewer of Dreams references his earlier film Después de Lucía.

Confaloni reviews Michel Franco's Dreams, a drama about a young Mexican dancer who tries to emigrate to the USA and the fraught relationship with his older American lover. The film explores immigration, social hypocrisy and power dynamics in intimate relationships. Franco's approach is described as bleak and disturbing, compared by the reviewer to the work of Michael Haneke. The review recommends Franco's earlier film Después de Lucía to readers.

For:Art-house film viewers; critics and readers interested in dramas about immigration, unequal power in relationships, and Mexican cinema.