Acclaimed ‘El violin’ depicts Mexican social conflicts

Posted on: June 19th, 2007
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“It took months, but Mexicans finally are getting to see the movie that some here have called the country’s most socially significant work of cinema in many moons.

Even before it arrived in theaters here at the beginning of May, “El violin” The Violin, the debut feature by writer-director Francisco Vargas, had been showered with more than 30 international awards. A number of Mexican film critics have pronounced it an unalloyed masterpiece. One prominent Mexican journalist, Carmen Aristegui, said it ranked among “the most important movies that have been produced in our country in the last years.”"

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