In a Mexican village, the local whorehouse is run by an elderly transvestite man and his daughter. One of the house's regular customers is a truck driver with a violent turn of mind. One day, he loses control entirely. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
In this French-Mexican-Spanish film that hops back and forth between the narration's present and its past, viewers watch Antonieta (Isabelle Adjani) as she is involved in the turbulent Mexican political scene in the first decades of the 20th century -- as she goes to Paris and commits suicide in the Notre Dame cathedral of that city, and then, in ...
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Priego directs the romantic drama The Truce, the second filmed adaptation of the novel by Mario Benedetti. Gonzalo Vega stars as a fiftysomething widower living in Vera Cruz with a high position in a shipping company. Just when he's thinking about retiring, he meets the conventionally attractive young secretary Laura ...
This dreamy and somewhat improbable tale set in the Mexican countryside has been compared with the fantasy-laden social satires of (Luis Bunuel). Not coincidentally, the director of this film, Luis Alcoriza has worked with Bunuel. In the story, Candelario (Gonzalo Vega), a rugged unemployed man, calls on Don Lazaro (Ernesto Gomez Cruz) the owner ...
A terrifying drama about a deranged killer on the loose set inside an apartment building, the story starts with a mild-mannered, part-time clarinetist for the local church. He has a hair fetish and has filled his closet with ponytails and braids from women who were sure his razor was the last thing they would see before having their throat slashed ...
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