This is a typical Arau movie, full of surrealism mixed with history and humor. Is not a movie to take it as the real story of Zapata but to enjoy the messages Arau try to send and to fully enjoy the places it was filmed. A lot of people do not understand that Arau didn't want to make an historical movie but to see another aspects of Zapata as a national hero, that's why the full name of the movie could be translated as Zapata a dream of a hero and I will like to underline "dream", that is the key word. The witches in the movie is a great touch of what Mexico really is, a place of surrealism. Please sit down and enjoy this movie and don't try to look for a history lesson!
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Dark Habits
(1983)
very funny, very almodovar
25 October 2004
Maybe you have to speak Spanish to understand the lines of this crazy nuns. Almodovar's fans will love this movie, it's very Almodovar. the end is kind of strange but like someone said "is more important the trip than to get there". The nuns of Dark Habits use drugs, write lurid pulp novels, design high-fashion habits, and keep a tiger in their courtyard. Yolanda (Cristina Sanchez Pascual) gets caught up in the head nun's scheme to regain the patronage of a wealthy noblewoman,the end is kind of strange but like someone said "ïs more important the trip than to get there".it offers its own charms and comic delights I give a 7 out of 10 but I really enjoy it.
El misterio del Trinidad
(2003)
Looking for an old ship, Juan finds more about his past and is willing to change his future
19 January 2004
Looking for an old ship, Juan finds more about his past and is willing to change his future.
Nice Mexican movie, about people looking and trying to understand their past and finding out that the mistakes from the past are not true.
Nice Mexican movie, about people looking and trying to understand their past and finding out that the mistakes from the past are not true.
Entre la tarde y la noche
(1999)
very good, Fantasy, Real life movie
15 August 2003
The story of a story-teller-woman who looks back at her childhood who was full of fantasy. Very good fotography and very nice places (it is shot in Mazatlan, Mexico)that transport you to the girl's fantasy.
a give it an 8.5 out of 10
a give it an 8.5 out of 10
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