2013 | Color | 80 min Hecha dentro de la tradición de la caméra- stylo Purgatorio, es una fábula humanista, una experiencia épica y visceral con poderosas imágenes donde Reyes imagina la frontera México-Estados Unidos como un lugar mítico comparable al purgatorio de Dante. Al retratar un mosaico de personajes conmovedores y paisajes rotos en ambos lados de la frontera, el cineasta reflexiona sobre los defectos de la naturaleza humana y el absurdo del mundo moderno. Country: México, Estados Unidos Direction: Reyes; Rodrigo Participation year at FICM: 2013
2013 | Color | 80 min Hecha dentro de la tradición de la caméra- stylo Purgatorio, es una fábula humanista, una experiencia épica y visceral con poderosas imágenes donde Reyes imagina la frontera México-Estados Unidos como un lugar mítico comparable al purgatorio de Dante. Al retratar un mosaico de personajes conmovedores y paisajes rotos en ambos lados de la frontera, el cineasta reflexiona sobre los defectos de la naturaleza humana y el absurdo del mundo moderno. Country: México, Estados Unidos Direction: Reyes; Rodrigo Participation year at FICM: 2013
Sansón and Me Two Mexican migrants, a young man serving a life sentence in prison and a filmmaker who was his court interpreter, become intertwined through life and cinema. See More
Sanson and Me Over the course of seven years of sharing letters and visiting him, Sanson and me have collaborated on a script for a series of reenactments narrating his tragic life story, spanning his childhood as a poor orphan in Mexico to his struggles to survive as a teenager in rural California. Slowly, the film begins to grow into an expansive portrait of the systemic failures impacting Sansón’s life as well as our developing friendship. See More
499 Year 2021 marks five centuries since Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire. 499 retraces the Spanish army’s route from Veracruz to Mexico City, following a fictional conquistador lost in modern times. Blending fact and fiction into a striking cinematic journey, 499 speaks to the ghosts of colonialism and their lingering presence in the issues facing contemporary Mexican reality. See More
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