The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones makes his theatrical directorial debut with a darkly funny, resonant tale of prejudice, poetic justice and redemption set against the Texas-Mexican border. After a rookie Border patrolman (Barry Pepper) carelessly murders an undocumented immigrant, a friend of the deceased (Jones) forces the killer to take the body back to Mexico for a proper burial. Guillermo Arriaga's engrossing, time-fractured story was named Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. "A work of uncommon maturity and remarkable poetry" - Salon.