After finding fame as the lead in 's hit legal drama , which recently saw a , Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo's new movie is now on the streaming service too. is the name of the film, and it arrived on the streaming platform on Wednesday, November 6. Like , it's a Netflix Original, having been made for the streamer, so you can't watch it anywhere else.
The movie is about a young man who tries to fulfill his mother's deathbed request to travel to the village he was born in, to locate his father (after whom the movie is titled). He finds the village full of ghosts (literal and metaphorical ones) which help him to better understand his past. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays the titular Pedro Páramo with Tenoch Huerta as the lead, Juan Preciado.
is based on a classic novel of the same name by Juan Rulfo, first published in 1955, which is currently considered one of the most influential Mexican books ever written. It was a favorite of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez (the latter of which is seeing their classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude also adapted into a Netflix series). The novel was written in a nonlinear fashion as a magical realism novel, and by all accounts, this movie follows suit.
Reviews suggest that it can be a little hard to follow at times but have interesting themes like the book. At the time of writing, prior to the movie's full release on Netflix, has a perfect run on Rotten Tomatoes, with all six reviews listed on the site being positive one.
