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Dias de otoño (Autumn Days)
Sat, Jan 22 | 9:20pm | TMT
For their third B. Traven adaptation, Gavaldón and Tarso recruited the Spanish-born writer and frequent Luis Buñuel scenarist Julio Alejandro. A surrealist element is conspicuous in this story of a naïve young woman from the countryside (Pina Pellicer) who invents a fictional fiancé and baby. Eventually, she comes to accept the deception herself.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso.
1962. 95 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Screening courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM, the film archive of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Screening courtesy of Fundación Televisa.
Rosauro Castro
Sun, Jan 23 | 2pm | TMT
The great popular hero of Mexican cinema, Pedro Armendáriz, here plays a morally ambiguous cacique —a rural political boss who is both of the people and their ruthless exploiter. When he is implicated in the death of a political reformer, his reign over his nameless village is threatened, a social development that Gavaldón seems to both welcome and regret.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Pedro Armendáriz, Carlos López Moctezuma, María Douglas, Carlos Navarro. 1950. 83 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. Cineteca Nacional México, Laboratorio de Restauración Digital Elena Sánchez Valenzuela.
Screening courtesy of Olympusat.
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