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MEXICAN FILMS
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Como Agua Para Chocolate
(Like Water For Chocolate)
Marco
Leonardi
Mexico -
1992 |
Tita and Pedro want to get married, but Tita has to take care of her
ageing mother and is not allowed to marry. Pedro ends up marrying Tita's
sister, but lets Tita know he only married her sister to be closer to
her. When Tita is forced to make the wedding cake, the guests at the
wedding are overcome with sadness... Tita has discovered she can do
strange things with her cooking. |
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Amores Perros
(Loves A Bitch) |
Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in
Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to
raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to
enter his dog Cofi into the world of dog fighting. After a dogfight goes
bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the
accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when
she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares
for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision. |
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Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu |
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Mexico –
2000
Nominated
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Y Tu Mama Tambien
(And Your Mother Also)
Alfonso
Cuaron
Mexico -
2001 |
Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and
Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the
friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret
beach called Boca del Cielo. Intrigued with their story and desperate to
escape, Luisa asks if she can join them on their trip. Soon the three
are headed out of Mexico City, making their way toward the fictional
destination. Along the way, seduction, argument and the contrast of the
trio against the harsh realities of the surrounding poverty ensue. |
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Laberinto Del Fauno
(Pans Labyrinth) |
"Pan's
Labyrinth" is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant
mother to live with her mother's new husband in a rural area up North in
Spain, 1944, after Franco's victory. The girl lives in an imaginary
world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin.
Fascist repression during the first years of Franco's dictatorship is at
its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that
through a fable of her own. |
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Guillermo Del Toro |
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Mexico -
2006
Nominated
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La Ley de Herodes
(Herod's Law)
Luis
Estrada
Mexico -
1999 |
After the corrupt former Mayor is killed by the peasants, poor janitor
Juan Vargas is appointed new Mayor of a desert town in central Mexico.
Although he tries to bring the motto of the ruling party to town
(modernity, peace and progress) he realizes soon that there's nothing to
do against corruption... except to become corrupt. Step by step, helped
by his pistol, Juan Vargas becomes the law and the worst Major in the
town's history. |
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La Otra Conquista
(The Other Conquest)
Salvador Carrasco
Mexico -
1998 |
It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish
Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens
with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of
Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are
covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by
the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the
massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado].
Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma,
survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if
awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find
his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in
his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and
God. |
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Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas
(Sex, Shame and Tears)
Antonio Serrano
Mexico -
1999 |
This comedic drama features two young couples, and another couple of old
friends who reenter the two couples lives. The story takes place mostly
in two apartments across the street from each other in Mexico City at
the end of the millenium. Intellectual Carlos is not offering as much
love as wife Ana needs. Tomas, a world-traveling friend of the couple
reappears after many years abroad. Across the street, womanizing
executive Miguel and suffering wife Andrea are joined by visiting friend
Maria. The presence of guests Tomas and Maria triggers lust, rejection,
infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences of suppressed love
and marital relations, among the six friends-three guys and three girls. |
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Arrancame La Vida
(Tear
This Heart Out)
Roberto Sneider
Mexico -
2008 |
A young girl recounts her
girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution.
by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican
literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a
powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Based partially in the life of General Maximiano Avila Camacho, brother
of the Mexican president Manuel Avila Camacho. He was governor of Puebla
from 1937 to 1941 and served as secretary of public works in his
brother's Cabinet. He was infamous for being ruthless, arrogant and
violent with his political enemies. |
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El Crimen Del Padre Amaro (The Crime Of Father Amaro) |
The movie takes place in Mexico, 2002 (based on a story from the
1800's). A young Father Amaro arrives at his new church post on the
orders of the Bishop. After he arrives, things seem to go smoothly at
first, but eventually, life becomes very complicated for the young
Father as he spends more time in the community. |
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo |
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Mexico –
2002
Nominated
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Por la Libre
(Dust to Dust) |
Rodri and Rico are two cousins unalike in every way except for a shared
contempt for their parents' values and a deep connection to their free
spirited grandfather, Rodrigo. When Rodrigo dies unexpectedly, his
yuppie children are more interested in quibbling about their inheritance
than in fulfilling his last request. Determined to make things right,
Rodri and Roco kidnap their grandfather's ashes and set off for sunny
Acapulco in a vintage Mercedes. On the way, they learn about life and
friendship and realize that their grandfather was more free-spirited
than they could have imagined. |
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Juan Carlos de Llaca
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Mexico –
2000
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