& Roberto Sneider

You're Killing Me Susana

6.4

"Me Estas Matando Susana" takes us on Eligio's quest to find and recover his wife, Susana, who without a word, left Mexico City behind for a writer's conference held in the chilly U.S. heartland.

Director: , Roberto Sneider
Main Cast: Gael García Bernal, Verónica Echegui
Soundtrack: , Victor Hernandez Stumpfhauser
Cinematography: , Antonio Calvache
Screenplay: , Roberto Sneider, Luis Cámara

Original title in Mexico is Me estás matando Susana.

Cinema Premiere: February 17, 2017

What do English critics think?

7 english reviews of You're Killing Me Susana (2016)

1. Arizona Republic

8 / 10

"You're Killing Me Susana" unfolds in a way that feels messy — not in a cinematic sense, but in the complex way life does.
- Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic »
2. Los Angeles Times

7 / 10

Though "You're Killing Me Susana" has things to say about the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, the film’s focus of is always on the personal getting of wisdom, especially where Eligio is concerned. Can he understand his own behavior enough to transcend it? And will that make a difference?
- Kenneth Turan
latimes.com »
3. Village Voice

6 / 10

Roberto Sneider’s "You're Killing Me Susana" is a culture-clash comedy in which the clash happens both onscreen and off.
- Sherilyn Connelly
Village Voice »
4. San Francisco Chronicle

5 / 10

It’s always fun to watch the charismatic Bernal.
- Walter Addiego
sfchronicle.com »
5. New York Times

5 / 10

"You're Killing Me Susana" is erratic, jumpy (thanks to a needlessly affected editing style) and not entirely in control of its message.
- Ben Kenigsberg
nytimes.com »
6. Hollywood Reporter

4 / 10

Gael Garcia Bernal’s effortless magnetism is the complicating factor — and the only compelling one — in "You're Killing Me Susana".
- Sheri Linden
hollywoodreporter.com »
7. Variety

3 / 10

Somewhere buried deep within "You're Killing Me Susana" is a commentary on loutish manliness, and the way in which romances are inherently fraught with tensions between individual and shared desires.
- Nick Schager
Variety »