Lourdes Portillo in Person

(El diablo nunca duerme). In The Devil Never Sleeps, Portillo creates a new form of documentary that we might call "docu-telenovela"-a blend of documentary, Mexican soap opera, and personal revelation, drawing from both sides of the border. Portillo travels back to Mexico to discover more about her Tio (Uncle) Oscar's mysterious death, and finds more questions (and gossip) than answers. As the film progresses, so does the seeming irrationality of his death, and soon everyone is a suspect in this murder mystery. Portillo's own brand of investigative probing draws on interviews, archival footage, home movies, and family photographs. It reveals in close-up one family's "skeletons" . . . and what family doesn't have them? Northern Mexican locals have a saying, "When evil lurks, the devil never sleeps." This film asks: who really is the devil?