Life, Death and Drag: a review of “Rains Over Babel”
When Jacob (William Hurtado), a pastor’s son, prepares for his drag debut, he faces consequences greater than he imagined in “Rains Over Babel,” a sultry, sexy, and stylish film about an assortment of misfits in a Colombian nightclub.
The nightclub, Babel, is a purgatory for wayward souls, where writer and director Gala del Sol examines afterlife myths, matching his outcast characters with the levels of purgatory from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.”
A character named Dante (Felipe Aguilar Rodriguez) smolders on the screen, playing an angel of Death bartering for his immortal soul, or hoping to retire.
Rodriguez smolders on the screen.
Author's summary: Review of "Rains Over Babel" film.