#Mexican Film

[frenchnewwaves]

y tú mamá también (2001)

[allegorias]

hi tumblr! this is a not-so-friendly-but-really-tired reminder that please please PLEASEEEE stop giving emilia pérez your time and energy!!!

i'm not so eloquent to enlist all the things that are wrong with the movie so here's a quick thread i found on xtwitter:

i'm not trans myself but members of the trans community have also critized the narrative of the movie because of this

yes, i know we all love musicals but this one? ain't it. i know everybody's eager with trans representation moreover if it's a trans actor in a main role but this film? ain't it. really. and not this trans woman, a full racist and classist who called 'gatos' (cats, derogative) to mexicans for not liking the movie. really. just so you know this movie is soooo bad that not only mexico but all latin american countries are so angry because of it. that's why it hasn't released here yet.

also, to all people who tries to defend this movie as 'a cultural, policial and social diagnosis of mexican reality that mexican film industry always tries to hide under the rug' (in words of the film press campaign that defends emilia pérez). there are dozens of mexican films made by mexican directors and screenwriters that talk about the violence in the country, most of them with all the hurt and respect (even the not-dramatic ones) that is needed in a topic like this and not making it a cheap musical. here are some of them:

the most recent? sujo which was released last year too and talks about a niño sicario (a child hitman for the narco) that didn't get any nomination btw!!

so yeah, take your money and energy elsewhere. maybe go to watch "i'm still here" the only latino (brazilian) movie that is nominated this award season that talks about a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband during the military dictatorship in brazil because that's how you should treat such sensitive topics, thanks.

[closetofcuriosities]

Y Tu Mamá También - Dir. Alfonso Cuarón - 2001

[celluloidrainbow]

LUCIÉRNAGAS (2018) dir. Bani Khoshnoudi Ramin, an gay Iranian man in his early 30s, flees from persecution in his home country and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. While coping with the language barrier, the distance, and the longing for his loved-ones, Ramin's nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships as he starts to rediscover his own desires. (link in title)

[feasibilities]

Tenoch Huerta Mejía and Iliana Fox Las Aparicio (2015) Directed by Moisés Ortiz Urquidi

[fibula-rasa]

Hands in Twilight / Crepúsculo (1945) 

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Julio Bracho

Cinematographer: Alex Phillips 

Performers: Arturo de Córdova, Gloria Marín, Lilia Michel

[galeria-de-arte]

Codornices en pétalos de rosas

III. Marzo

INGREDIENTES:

12 rosas, de preferencia rojas

12 castañas

2 cucharadas de mantequilla

2 cucharadas de fécula de maíz

2 gotas de esencia de rosas

2 cucharadas de anís

2 cucharadas de miel

2 ajos

6 codornices

1 pithaya

Manera de hacerse:

Se desprenden con mucho cuidado los pétalos de las rosas, procurando no pincharse los dedos, pues aparte de que es muy doloroso (el piquete), los pétalos pueden quedar impregnados de sangre y esto, aparte de alterar el sabor del platillo, puede provocar reacciones químicas, por demás peligrosas.

Como agua para chocolate, 1992

- Laura Esquivel

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 3, 1962, filming began on Santo VS the Vampire Women.

[blackabyss666]

Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (1977)

Dir. Juan López Moctezuma

[atlxolotl]

Alucarda (1977) dir. Juan López Moctezuma

[azrael-landfill]

Veneno para las hadas (1986), dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada

[theaskew]

[exiledreplicant]

Hurricane Season (2023) - Scenery

dir. Elisa Miller

[celluloidrainbow]

TE PROMETO ANARQUÍA (2015) dir. Julio Hernández Cordón Miguel and Johnny skate with their friends through Mexico City, revel in their blissful sexuality, and make a bit of cash in the illegal blood trade. A contact hooks them up with drug traffickers who need black-market blood since they can’t go to hospitals, and it all seems like a perfect way to make a lot of money. But the scheme goes off the rails, and Miguel and Johnny are in over their heads, their eyes opened too late to the truly disturbing underground network of clinics servicing those injured in the drug wars. (link in title)

[fibula-rasa]

Gloria Marín in Twilight / Crepúsculo (1945) 

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Julio Bracho

Cinematographer: Alex Phillips 

Performer: Gloria Marín