The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Hey everyone,

This will be a quick post as I'm stressed out and scrambling to do a million things this week before the Phoenix Film Festival hits this weekend.

A friend was in town this past weekend and we took her to see The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. What an amazing movie! It's Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut and he does a great job with it. A great story about a rancher who finds out his friend, Melquiades, has been killed. He finds out it was a border patrol agent, played amazingly by Barry Pepper. He then kidnaps the Border Patrol agent, makes him dig up the body, and takes him to Mexico to bury Melquiades' body back in his home town. Such a great story about friendship, with interesting parallels between Jones' character and Melquiades.

See it if you get a chance. It's well worth it.

The Movie Monkey