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DVD of the Week
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
£11.99
THE first film to be directed by actor Tommy Lee Jones is a well-measured and sure-paced story. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is set in a world of institutionalised racism, with a desolate Texan/Mexican borderland as its backdrop. The themes are revenge, and its characters are bitter.
Jones himself excels as Pete Perkins, an unsentimental rancher scratching a living in an unforgiving landscape. Melquiades Estrada is a ranch hand working for Pete when he is shot by border patrol officer Mike Norton (Barry Pepper).
Pete seeks to unravel the conspiracy to keep the killing quiet – and has to face up to a wall of racism at the same time.
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