1956 | B/N | 75:00 A documentary about famous Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, narrating his life from childhood through his rise to the peak of his profession. Country: México Direction: Velo; Carlos Script: Butler; Hugo, Velo; Carlos Production: Barbachano Ponce; Manuel, Werker; George P. Photography: Muñoz; Ramón Sound: Gavira; Gonzalo Music: Halffter; Rodolfo Cast:Procuna; Luis, Procuna; Consuelo, Procuna; Ángel, Sevilia; Antonio, Farjat; José, Fregoso; Arturo, Díaz; Ponciana, Malgesto; Paco Participation year at FICM: 2015
1956 | B/N | 75:00 A documentary about famous Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, narrating his life from childhood through his rise to the peak of his profession. Country: México Direction: Velo; Carlos Script: Butler; Hugo, Velo; Carlos Production: Barbachano Ponce; Manuel, Werker; George P. Photography: Muñoz; Ramón Sound: Gavira; Gonzalo Music: Halffter; Rodolfo Cast:Procuna; Luis, Procuna; Consuelo, Procuna; Ángel, Sevilia; Antonio, Farjat; José, Fregoso; Arturo, Díaz; Ponciana, Malgesto; Paco Participation year at FICM: 2015
Pedro Páramo A strange and mesmerizing story that explores the destructive relationship between those with power and those without, Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo is considered one of the greatest texts in any language by Jorge Luis Borges, and Gabriel García Márquez credits the book with breaking him free from his writer’s block and inspiring his own masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Carlos Velo’s 1967 film adaptation, rarely seen, doesn’t attempt to outshine or reinvent Rulfo’s story of a young man searching for his father but instead commits to translating the written word to cinematic See More
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