The Scoop On Bandidas

It’s movie night, so grab your popcorn and flip on that brand new plasma television that you got for the holidays. Bandidas, starring Salma with her good friend Penelope Cruz, came out this week. In short, the hot new movie release is a comedy-adventure set in 1888 Mexico, in which two women – one a European-educated sophisticate, the other a rough-and-tumble peasant — reluctantly join forces to fight a ruthless enforcer… by becoming celebrated bank robbers.

Perhaps there was some doubt that a western chick-flick would succeed, because Bandidas was never released theatrically. Western comedies are notorious for failing in the box office, and this may have been another reason.

A respected movie review source offered the following description of the film: “Salma and Penelope are Sara and Maria, two Mexican women of completely different backgrounds who band together to rob Mexican banks when a greedy political figure from America begins stealing land from poor landowners to build train track down Mexico. When the women cause enough trouble robbing the banks an expert is brought in, but the women convince him to help them when they take him hostage.”

The DVD contains an audio commentary track with Salma and Penelope, in which the ladies talk about how they made the director and producers nervous when they would speak in Spanish to each other on set, which was not understood by the people in charge. There is also a featurette on the two actresses.

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