Mexican director Michel Franco's "Dreams" began with a fraught love story that grew into a wider narrative about the tense ties between Mexico and the United States, he said on Saturday.

Academy Award-winning US actor Jessica Chastain on Saturday said her latest movie, about a Mexican ballet dancer who longs to move to the US, was "undeniably political" as it premiered

If for nothing else, Michel Franco's wan and repetitive new effort gives us a crystalline definition for "victim of one's own success." For there is really no way to separate the deflation that sets in early in "Dreams" from the surprise that so agreeably built throughout his prior entry,