Pedro Paramo is a 2024 Mexican drama romantic fantasy Western film directed by Rodrigo Prieto from a screenplay by Juan Rulfo and Mateo Gil. The film premiered on the movie platform Netflix is on November 6, 2024.
The story follows Juan Preciado (Tenoch Huerta), who, after the death of his mother, travels to the town of Comala to find his father, Pedro Paramo (Manuel García-Rulfo). Upon arriving, Juan discovers that Comala is a deserted town inhabited by ghosts, who reveal to him the dark secrets of his father.
Pedro Paramo was a powerful landowner whose lust for power and wealth led to the decline of the town and the suffering of its inhabitants. The film explores themes of love, ambition and the consequences of unrequited love, intertwining reality and supernatural elements in a surreal crime drama.
The film is an adaptation of the 1955 novel of the same name by Juan Rulfo.
