“Voy a Explotar” (“I’m Gonna Explode”) is the contemporary Mexican teenage “Pierrot le Fou.” It knows this, and it wants you to know it, and it doesn’t care if this makes you hate it on principle. The ...

Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo (“Drama/Mex”) channels 60s-era Godard in his latest, “I’m Gonna Explode,” which opens today for a week-long run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

Film journals aside, the 50th anniversary of the nouvelle vague—which might have been celebrated last year for The 400 Blows or this year for Breathless—passed with remarkably little fanfare. No ...

Boldly transposing Pierrot le Fou to a Mexico City suburb, Gerardo Naranjo’s self-consciously triumphantly tragicomic third feature puts a pair of disaffected high-school students on the road to ...