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Wikipedia article




'Burn the Bridges' is a 2007 Mexican film directed by Francisco Franco Alba, from an original script co-written by Franco and actress Maria Rene Prudencio. The film was shot in the Mexican state of Zacatecas and addresses issues such as self-assertion, loss, adolescence, and sexual relations. It officially premiered in October 2007 at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. The title refers to a widely known Mexican saying, which means "to cut all ties holding someone to something or someone" -- something Hernn Corts is believed to have done when he and his men set foot for the first time in continental America, in order to avoid mutiny or desertion during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Plot



Elena (Irene Azuela) and Sebastin (ngel Onsimo Nevrez) are a teenaged brother and sister who have been reunited at their home while looking after their ailing mother, singer Eugenia Daz (Claudette Maille). Eugenia has been diagnosed with cancer and doesn't have long to live, and it has fallen to Elena and Sebastin to care for her in her last months, with Elena (who is older) spending her days with her mother while Sebastian goes to school and looks in on Eugenia in the evenings. Elena is obsessively caring for Sebastin, but while he loves his sister and mother, he seems detached from the affairs of his family. He's more drawn to his roughneck schoolmate Juan (Bernardo Bentez). As the reality of Eugenia's fate becomes clearer, Elena and Sebastin's confusion about love, mortality and family becomes more acute, and circumstances become even more muddled when they take in a boarder, Aurora (Jessica Segura), who falls in Sebastin's wealthy schoolmate Ismael (Ramn Valdez Urtiz).

Cast



*Irene Azuela as Elena

*ngel Onsimo Nevrez as Sebastin

*Claudette Maill as Eugenia

*Bernardo Bentez as Juan

*Ramn Valdez Urtiz as Ismael

*Juan Carlos Barreto as Efran

*Jessica Segura as Aurora

*Aida Lpez as Chayo

*Alberto Estrella as Emilio

*Diana Bracho as Catalina

Awards



The film won two Ariel Awards in 2008: for Best Actress (Irene Azuela) and for Best Original Music (Alejandro Giacomn, songs by Joselo Rangel). The film was also nominated for Best Art Design.

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