Gael Garcia Bernal will be killing it on HBO Latino…

HBO Latino has acquired the U.S. pay TV and SVOD rights to “You’re Killing Me, Susana,” a romantic comedy-then-drama starring the 38-year-old Mexican actor, director and producer.

Directed by Roberto Sneider, who co-wrote the film with Luis Camara, You’re Killing Me, Susana tracks Eligio, a philandering two-bit Mexican actor who, when his wife unsurprisingly abandons him, pursues her to a writing workshop in the snowy wastes of Iowa.

A study of the challenges of love for two self-driven independently-minded characters – one reason why Garcia Bernal wanted to make the movie so “fervently,” he told Variety – the film also reflects the ambivalence Mexicans feel towards the glories – its gastronomy – and failings – machismo – of their own culture.

“We can laugh out loud at our misfortunes and failures yet at the same time we are incredibly proud at our acceptance of this and how this makes us a much more mixed, chaotic, free definition of a sophisticated culture,” Garcia Bernal told Variety.