MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The Mexican contender for top honors at this year’s Cannes Film festival is a brutal depiction of the country’s poverty and the gangland carnage it's helped spawn. The first of 18 films contending for the coveted Palme D'Or prize to be shown at the festival — which runs through May 26 — “Heli” follows the story of a struggling autoworker whose younger sister draws him into confrontation with local gangsters and paramilitary police in central Guanajuato state.
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