Life, Death and Drag: A Review of "Rains Over Babel"
When Jacob, 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 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, played by Felipe Aguilar Rodriguez, is an angel of Death bartering for his immortal soul, and Rodriguez smolders on the screen.
"Rains Over Babel" is a film about an assortment of misfits in a nightclub that is more than it seems.
Author's summary: Review of "Rains Over Babel" film.