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 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, hoping to retire. Rodriguez smolders on the screen.
Gala del Sol examines afterlife myths, matching his outcast characters with the levels of purgatory from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.”
Author's summary: Review of "Rains Over Babel" film.
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