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Mexico
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Tito Davison – Que Dios me perdone AKA May God Forgive Me (1948)
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María Novaro – Danzón (1991)
1991-2000DramaMaría NovaroMexicoQuote:
Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old “Salon Colonia”. They’ve danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia’s life forever.Read More » -
Rodrigo Plá – La Zona AKA The Zone (2007)
Rodrigo Plá2001-2010DramaMexicoThrillerQuote:
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood’s borders.Read More » -
Lila Avilés – Tótem AKA Totem (2023)
Lila Avilés2021-2030DramaMexicoQuote:
In her second film after The Chambermaid in 2018, Lila Avilés leaves behind the cramped hotel rooms of her debut but continues to work on the connection between relationships and interior spaces. This time, the setting is a large house where, over the course of a long day, family and friends meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but as it will likely be his last, it is also a farewell ceremony. There is duality in the film’s soul, too, with the frenzy of preparations and the spontaneity of the celebration concealing the profoundly archaic and spiritual dimension of the title. Tona’s weakened body is initially invisible, protected in a room where he tries to summon up the strength required for the humanist ceremony in which he will be showered with all the love and affection needed to face his final journey.Read More » -
Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020)
Nicolás Pereda2011-2020DramaMexicoA pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.Read More »
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Emilio Fernández – Pueblerina (1949)
Emilio Fernández1941-1950DramaMexicoAurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.Read More »
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Pablo Escoto – Toda La Luz Que Podemos Ver AKA All the Light That We Can See (2020)
2011-2020DramaMexicoPablo EscotoMaria, forced to marry a bandit, escapes into the woods with El Toro, fleeing her fate. Rosario, in love with a murdered general, watches her grave at the foot of a volcano.Read More »
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Felipe Cazals – Familiaridades AKA Familiarities (1969)
1961-1970ComedyDramaFelipe CazalsMexicoA woman, Betty, is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. The salesman stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.Read More »
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Emilio Fernández – Bugambilia (1945)
1941-1950DramaEmilio FernándezMexicoRomanceDavid Melville writes —
Fans of old Hollywood may remember Dolores del Rio as a ravishing beauty who couldn’t act. Moving from Mexico to the US in the late 20s, she played decorative roles in largely mediocre films. Even the classic South Seas romance Bird of Paradise (King Vidor, 1932) used her less as an actress than as a live Gauguin painting. The musical Wonder Bar (Lloyd Bacon, 1934) gave her little to do beyond a sadomasochist tango with whips. By the early 40s, not even her liaison with Orson Welles could get Dolores a role in a decent film.Read More »