My Dear Tom Mix

It’s not surprising that this curious Mexican film draws inspiration and some guidance from Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is an old hand at mixing fantasy and reality. In this case, the fantasy is the projection of the much older Joaquina who has given silent Western hero Tom Mix the attention she might otherwise have lavished on a husband or children. It’s the 1920s, and rural Mexico is still plagued by roving thieves and killers, like those in The Magnificent Seven