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Da de muertos (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Da de muertos' ("Day of the Dead"), also known as 'Da de difuntos' and 'Los hijos de la guayaba', ("The Children of the Guava") is a 1988 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Luis Alcoriza. It is Alcoriza's penultimate film as director and his last one made entirely in Mexico; his last film directed, 'La sombra del ciprs es alargada', was a Mexican-Spanish co-production.
Plot
In a cemetery on the Day of the Dead, the lawyer Talamantes is going to place a cross on his mother's grave. There, he meets with other assistants who commemorate his relatives: a bricklayer, a poet, the shoemaker Zacaras, the plumber Baltazar and the hairdresser Pedro, with their respective families. In the heat of alcohol, they all argue, show their weaknesses, resolve disagreements in couples, fight, flirt, reconcile and swear each other eternal friendship.
Cast
*Pedro Weber as Baltazar (as Pedro Weber "Chatanuga")
*Manuel "Flaco" Ibez as Zacaras
*Carmen Salinas as Cholita
*Adalberto Martnez as The Thief (as Adalberto Martinez "Resortes")
*Mara Rojo as Yolanda
*Sergio Ramos as Pedro (as Sergio Ramos "El Comanche")
*Patricia Rivera
*Ernesto Gmez Cruz as The Poet
*Leticia Perdign as Martha
*Edgardo Gazcn as Salvador
*Eugenia Avendao as Enriqueta
*Fernando Lujn as Francisco de Jess Talamantes
*Ral Araiza as Beto
*Hctor Surez
Analysis
In an interview collected in the book 'Memorias de posguerra: Dilogos con la cultura del exilio' by Manuel Garca Garca, director Luis Alcoriza described his film thus, "'[L]a pelcula sali muy dura. Era una agresin frontal al sistema y a la moral dominante. Haba una burla agresiva a la muerte que superaba la crtica comn del mexicano.'" ("The movie came out very hard. It was a frontal assault on the dominant system and morals. There was an aggressive mockery of death that surpassed the common criticism of the Mexican.") He added, "'La gente se asust un poco. La pecula es divertida pero con un fondo violento. Abord el tema de la figura de la madre de manera muy frontal y eso aqu no est bien visto.'" ("People got a little scared. The movie is funny but with a violent background. I approached the subject of the figure of the mother in a very frontal way and that here is not well seen.")
See also
* Day of the Dead
References
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