It's not all tequila and nachos
Meet the Head of Juan Pérez
Discover a different side of Mexico with the Hola Mexico Film Festival.
Described by the Washington Post as "an elegant, heartbreaking fable, equal parts Shakespearean tragedy, neo-Western and mob movie but without the pretension", Cary Joji Fukunaga's Sin Nombre is a beautifully crafted film about a young Honduran woman's desperate plight through Latin America en route to the promised land of 'El Norte'.
Winner of the directing and cinematography awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Fukunaga's debut feature opens the 4th Hola Mexico Film Festival, an annual showcase of works by some of Mexico's most exciting talents.
This year's highlights include Antonio Cerrano's Sex, Shame and Tears, a battle-of-the-sexes comedy/drama that broke box office records in Mexico, and Alfonso Pineda-Ulloa's Love, Pain and Vice Versa, a "perversion of a fairy tale" (in the director's words) about a woman's obsession with a stranger who haunts her dreams. Roberto Sneider's Tear this Heart Out is a sweeping period epic based on a novel by Angeles Mastretta that became one of the most successful - and most expensive - films in Mexican cinema history. The Bastards is the second feature film from Amat Escalante, a self-taught filmmaker from the city of Guanajuato whose debut film Sangre won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes in 2005. And Emilio Portes' Meet the Head of Juan Pérez is a black comedy in which the severed bonce of Juan Pérez the Great, a magician in a struggling circus, recounts the circumstances that lead to his own decapitation.
¡Hasta pronto!
Published Thursday, 10 December 2009
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