Those who enjoy religious allegories like Pilgrim's Progress will have an easier time with this carefully constructed drama than those looking simply for a straightforward story. In the movie, circus-born Alma is a performer at the Fantasia Circus. Her mother has left her, and she is having an affair with her father, who is ill. When he dies, she ...
With little dialog and exquisite, almost documentary-like images, Cabeza de Vaca offers a fascinating (if not mystical and at times just plain puzzling) foray back to early 16th-century America as it chronicles the exploits of the explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca as he spends eight years traversing the wild lands surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. ...
This second feature from writer-director Francisco Athie (Lolo) carries a stylish cyber-candescence throughout, courtesy of techno-twists added by production designer Chu Uroz (cables, surveillance cameras, TV monitors, and other electronic gear). Athie's tense politico-thriller begins with a trade-union chief's murder. His Brazilian mistress ...
The generally hopeless lot of Mexico's poor is closely examined in this tragic melodrama. In the story, Lolo is a seventeen-year old man with a job at a foundry. The foundry job doesn't pay much, but it's something. However, when he is robbed and beaten so badly that he must go to the hospital, the foundry fires him for his absence. When he gets ...
In this tender family drama, Lola is a single mother living in Mexico City who earns her living as a street vendor. She and the other unlicensed vendors like her must keep an eagle eye out for the police, and at the same time must try to eke out a living selling clothing irregulars. Despite that, she has a good relationship with her daughter. It's ...
Set to the pulsating soundtrack of Mexican rock music, director Paul Leduc's gritty look at life in the ghettoes of Mexico City during the 1980s ventures into the places rarely seen by tourists and outsiders. In traveling seldom explored side streets, visiting the local bars, and swaying to the music of the best-known rock acts that the city has ...
Cambio de Suerte is a Spanish-language thriller about the intersecting destinies of a group of gamblers, strippers, and pimps whose luck may change -- for better or worse -- during the course of one steamy night on the mean streets of Mexico City. Roberto Sosa, Armando Hernandez, and Laura de Ita star in this Mexican drama directed by Jorge ...
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