“I'm No Longer Here” (“Ya no estoy aqui”) is one of those Netflix movies you’ll wish you’d watched on the big screen.

The film from Mexico City-born writer/director Fernando Frias de le Parra is so gorgeously shot and offers such a rich sense of place that it’s always visually compelling, even when the narrative tends to sag a bit.

The filmmaker, who directed all six episodes of the HBO Spanish-language, horror-comedy series “Los Espookys,” turns his attention to another genre mashup. "I'm No Longer Here" focuses on modern teenagers in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey who are obsessed with the bouncing beat of traditional cumbia music, slowed-down and done their own way.

They call their crew the Terkos, go by nicknames like Chaparra and Sweatshirt, and spend their days wandering the streets, singing, dancing, and talking trash about the other groups in town.

"I'm No Longer Here" offers a vivid and vibrant slice of life—it’s a hangout movie about asserting your own identity but also wanting to belong.

The days are joyously lazy, and yet a creeping sense of danger emerges as they interact more with a charismatic cartel member and his minions. In the middle of this tension is the Terkos’ leader, 17-year-old Ulises, played by a confident Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño. And as his name would suggest, he goes on an odyssey, one that we see in back-and-forth flashes in time.

I'm No Longer Here (2020)

Genre: Drama

Release Date: May 27, 2020

Stars: Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Xueming Angelina Chen,

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Language: Spanish

Subtitle Language: English

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4323594/

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