Mexican cinema: a window into a world From: statesman.com
Tagged: Hollywood, MexicoPosted on: June 24th, 2008
We’ve been on a bit of a roll watching Mexican movies lately – about five or six in the last couple months. After stuffing ourselves with so much Hecho en Mexico cinema, it’s hard not to notice some common threads running through the latest crop of movies, some excellent, some hard to sit through for an entire viewing.
Mexican movies are a world away from Hollywood – instead of glitzy soundstages, the gritty, traffic-choked Mexican capital serves as the ultra-realistic setting for most. But Mexican movies also seem to share another trait. Most are unsettling – you don’t leave the theater feeling all is well with the world. There are are no tidy endings. Most are as messy and ambiguous as the city itself. “*
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