Mexican Cinema: Literature in Film
A young man falsely implicated in a murder flees Mexico City and hides in a small town with his rich uncle, but the uncle’s other family members fear the visitor will deprive them of their inheritance. Roberto Sneider wrote and directed this 1995 comedy, adapting a novel by Jorge Ibarguengoitia. (7:00)
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Luis Carlos Carrera’s 1993 adaptation of a comic novel by Sergio Pitol chronicles four stormy decades of a bourgeois marriage. The husband (Alonso Echanove), a salesman turned resort developer, habitually seduces his secretaries; in retaliation his bored, neurotic wife (Socorro Bonilla) plots to murder him, conspiring with a succession of lovers. Carrera’s tone careens from trashy cynicism to the sort of empathetic camp associated with Pedro Almodovar, but his evocation of Mexico’s gaudy, corrupt nouveau riche in the 50s is highly effective. (TS) (7:00)
See listing for Friday, October 22. (6:00)
Mexican director Arturo Ripstein’s first feature (1966) was scripted by novelists Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. A man returns to his village after 18 years in prison for his unwilling role in a duel, and the son of his victim tries to force him into a second one. With Marga Lopez and Jorge Martinez de Hoyos. (7:00)
See listing for Saturday, October 23. (7:00)
