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Documentarian Tatiana Huezo on the Challenges of Transitioning to Fiction With ‘Noche de Fuego’

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:36:28 +0000

Few projects coming from Latin America are currently as highly anticipated as Noche de fuego. A loose film adaptation of Jennifer Clement’s bestselling novel, Prayers for the Stolen, the 2020 release will mark the first fiction feature from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tatiana Huezo. Known for El lugar más pequeño and Tempestad, both projects which tackled the

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REVIEW: ‘Amores Modernos’ Is a Delightful Mexican Indie With Hints of a Novela Mixed With Melancholy Humor

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:25:29 +0000

“Que culebrón!” So one character describes the increasingly telenovela-esque plots that thread themselves through Matías Meyer’s Amores modernos. He’s on to something. The ensemble dramedy, after all, gathers a family for a funeral and in the process introduces us to a secret sister, a changed and contested will, a breakup that leads to leg paralysis,

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REVIEW: ‘Observar las Aves’ Is a Poetic Eulogy of a Woman With Alzheimer’s Who’s Not Yet Gone

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:29:47 +0000

When filmmaker Andrea Martínez Crowther first learned that her mother was suffering from Alzheimer’s, she began worrying that such a diagnosis would also be in her future. Immediately, she dreamed up one way she would cope: by filming herself. Knowing that she may not know herself, she’d want to create a kind of farewell film

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This Fake Documentary Is an Ode to Mexican Punks of the Late ’80s

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:09:37 +0000

The opening title cards of Jose Leandro Cordova’s Club Internacional Aguerridos (CIA) informs us that what we are about to watch is a documentary filmed by “Nicolás Oxman.” Moreover, Nicolás has gone missing. As the grainy black-and-white images of this DIY doc soon show us, his disappearance may well be connected with his links to

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In This Mexican Drama, Construction Workers Take Over Their Boss’s House

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:51:52 +0000

Latin American history is riddled with soured revolutions. With stories of how radical promises of social change fall prey to the corrupting lure of power. Rather than try to recreate one in particular, Mexican filmmaker David Zonana sought to make instead a modern-day fable that could speak to any one of them. The result is

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This Dominican Movie Starring Charlie Chaplin’s Daughter Is a Wild Ride Complete With Vampires

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:46:21 +0000

To describe La fiera y la fiesta (Holy Beasts) is to risk making it sound both tamer and much more outlandish than it is. Directed by husband and wife team Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas, this Dominican Republic-set film follows Vera, an aging actress played by Charlie Chaplin’s daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who returns to

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Yalitza Aparicio & Daniela Vega On What It’s Like to Be an Actress from an Overlooked Community

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:19:23 +0000

There was one word both Yalitza Aparicio and Daniela Vega returned to time and time again during their conversation at Los Cabos International Film Festival: dignity. The Mexican actress, who earlier this year earned an Oscar nomination for Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, and the star of Chile’s Oscar-winning film A Fantastic Woman were invited guests of

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12 Latino & Latin American Movies We’re Excited to See at Los Cabos Film Festival 2019

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:47:00 +0000

Every year Baja California plays host to industry leaders, filmmakers, cinephiles, and critics during the annual Los Cabos International Film Festival. With a mix of screenings, panels, talks, parties and master classes, the beachside fest has become a fast-growing celebration of global (and particularly North American) cinema. Its programs spotlight Mexican filmmakers (Mexico Primero), environmentally

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5 Latin American TV Series We Can’t Wait to See

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:10:44 +0000

The TV vs film debate may never be solved. But that hasn’t stopped film festivals from embracing the television industry. That’s how those attending Cannes got to see Gael García Bernal’s latest TV venture Aquí en la tierra, how Tribeca-goers saw the Latino Karate Kid reboot Cobra Kai before it went up on YouTube, and how those going to Sundance got a

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5 Mexican Movies We’re Excited to Watch in 2019

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:40:25 +0000

One of the joys of attending film festivals is the chance to discover hidden gems. Seeing that future indie hit no one has yet to see. Or that promising director that wasn’t on your radar. Or the actress you’d never heard about knocking it out of the park. At fests like Los Cabos International Festival,

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