leoncio-ortega I see the intention of the film, thus we live in Mexico (as in Mexican culture) in a surreal world but still the director should develop a personal style. I have never been so impressed with David Lynch's films or any other that portray scenery in which quiet, innocent lifestyles and characters are mixed with underground dark worlds and also characters. Why? because it is reality in Mexican culture , you see people devoted to saints yet they are part of drug cartels or they are dangerous murderers. You can also have the most beautiful neighborhoods in the world and a few feet away the poorest in the world, it is full of contrasts in textures in which if you apply the juxtaposition technique of Lynch you get a lynch film and that is what Santitos do, yet we have to develop a new way to attack this reality, it is too easy to go lynch's way.

Chaac This is really an excellent movie. I was very surprised to read the great reviews it got in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News, New York Daily News, Time Out, LA Weekly, Movie Maker, etc. Incredible reviews appeared on most newspapers in Spain as well. I highly reccomend to see this fun picture becauser the story is unique, the acting superb, and the light-hearted way of telling this story is unforgettable. Don't miss this classic

Miguel González I had lost my faith in national productions after "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba" and "Un embrujo". Santitos made me believe in mexican films again!It's a wonderful road movie about faith and sacrifice. Really funny, with great photography work and excellent actors. If you've watched mexican movies from the last decade, you'll know all of them are about poverty and misery, a depressing look at Mexico. But Santitos is like a ray of light in a dark national film industry.Don't miss it!

aztecp Santitos has many wonderful things: great photography by Xavier Perez Grobet, some good acting, particularly by Demian Bichir, and the supporting actors, excellent art direction, a nice sense of humor, a good music score by Carlo Nicolau. Its weaknesses are a wooden performance by the actress who plays Esperanza, the main character. With a better, more expressive actor, this movie could have soared, since she has to carry the bulk of it. She's lovely to look at, but her performance lacks character. The story drags on a little bit too long and doesn't really seem to have much of a point. As is typical in Mexico it seems that women can only be either saints or whores -- and the novel and screenplay were written by a woman! However, it's a promising first film by Alejandro Springall and will undoubtedly delight fans of the "Like Water for Chocolate" school of magical realism.