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The Violin: People of Earthly Colors

In the mid-1990s, the masked insurgent Marcos (Subcomandante Marcos), who was also known as the "modern era’s equivalent to Che Guevara," undoubtedly shook Mexico and the rest of the world. In southern Mexico, Marcos rose up with thousands of indigenous Mexicans, igniting what was later known as the Zapatista Uprising in 1994. Facing repeated brutal suppression and encirclement by the Mexican government forces, they declared they would never surrender. By the early 21st century, Marcos still app

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Pedro Páramo: Kiss of Ghosts

Ghosts and nightmares surround Pedro Páramo. The novel Pedro Páramo was published in 1955, and as Mexican author Juan Rulfo’s (1917 – 1986) representative work, it’s also considered ‘one of the pinnacles of Latin American novels’. Its non-linear chronology, ghostly perspectives, and innovative narrative made Susan Sontag proclaim it “not only a masterpiece of the 20th-century, but one of the most influential books of the century”. Gabriel García Márquez also praised it, saying there’d be no One

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Monos, a Savage Tale

White clouds drift idly underneath the blue sky as a group of blindfolded teenagers play football over the grounds filled with red vegetation... The Colombian film Monos (2019) looks surreal at the outset. The film tells the story of a group of teenage guerrillas guarding an American hostage (Doctora) and a milk cow on the top of an impossibly high mountain. The film’s atmosphere switches between astonishing beauty and extreme horror, and the audience witnesses how a small, isolated community tr

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'El infierno': Once upon a time in Narcángel

I saw a news report a few days back that the mayor of Chilpancingo, Mexico, was assassinated on October 6, 2024, just six days after taking office. His severed head was placed on the roof of a car, while his body was found inside the vehicle. The report mentioned that drug cartels in the area are very powerful, and six politicians have been killed this year alone. That night, I rewatched the Mexican film El Infierno（2010）. Later in the night, I found myself lying awake, losing sleep. Eventually

Adrian Seda: excellent! Perfect analysis!

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'El infierno': Once upon a time in Narcángel

The Settlers : The Awakening of La Malinche

As the fog slowly disperses, a family of Native Americans is revealed resting in a thatched hut. They sit quietly by the campfire, their pale yellow skin aglow with the gentle firelight, highlighting the small smiles on their faces. This brief moment in the Chilean film The Settlers (Los Colonos, 2023) is extremely impactful. It’s a fleeting anthropology study and is the last time we see these Native Americans, as the next scene depicts their massacre by the colonisers. However, The Settlers is

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The Settlers : The Awakening of La Malinche

'Extraordinary Stories': Beyond Cinema

In the 2022 film "Trenque Lauquen" (directed by Laura Citarella) produced by El Pampero Cine, the female protagonist Laura leaves her fiancé, quits her job, and drops out of her nearly completed PhD program to walk into the Pampas grasslands alone. Her decision mirrors the real-life departure and rebellion of El Pampero Cine: a departure from the existing film industry and film aesthetics to create handcrafted films inspired by the collective spirit of punk bands and reevaluate the significance

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7 Boxes: The Montage of Dollars and Body Remains

A European asks a Latin American filmmaker: “Why is that searching a Latin American play we don't see any poverty? We don't see any misery?” This line, from the Argentinian film The Gold Bug, reflects the prejudice of audience outside Latin America, that there must be suffering in Latin American films, and the region is defined by it. In other words, it seems to be a crucial survival strategy for Latin American films to attract the privileged gaze with the spectacle of Latin American suffering t

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7 Boxes: The Montage of Dollars and Body Remains

El Conde: Story of a Deicide

Dictators abound in Latin America. Gabriel García Márquez once said that ‘the dictator’ is an eternal theme in Latin American literature. When he decided to write a novel with a Latin American dictator as the main character, he began studying biographies of many Latin American dictators. He then learnt they shared many common characteristics, such as having lost their fathers, their mothers being very prominent in their lives, and that every dictator had their own peculiarities. For instance, Ge

Bento Gonçalves: great article, great job!

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Death in Buenos Aires: The Argentine Homme Fatal

murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle.——Double Indemnity Death in Buenos Aires（Muerte en Buenos Aires ，2014) is a film shrouded in various mysteries and controversies: the extremely high and unexplained production costs (at USD$25 million, it’s about 4-5 times the usual cost of Argentine film productions at the time); a mysterious debuting female director named Natalia Meta; unprecedented publicity for the premiere in Argentina and polarising reviews. Reviewers who loved it said that “his

Ayelen S: Hermoso y bien estructurado artículo.

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Death in Buenos Aires: The Argentine Homme Fatal

'Bacurau': Apocalypse of Cannibalism

Column Introduction: If watching a movie is like encountering a spark of light within darkness, then watching a suspense movie is like staring into the darkness in an abyss. This column focuses on representative Latin American suspense films since 2000, which can be grouped into the following three categories: 1. Reflective historical narratives of authoritarianism, such as "The Secret in Their Eyes" (Argentina, 2009) and "El Conde" (Chile, 2023) 2. Scrutiny of contemporary crime frenzy, such as

Horacio Villarroel: The film of the year!

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Apasionado de las historias, el cine es para mí una ventana al cambio personal y social, una herramienta de transformación, siempre y cuando esté en las manos adecuadas.

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Escribo sobre cine fantástico y de culto (y 007) en la web desde Abril del 2000, en Portal Arlequin (antiguamente conocido como SSSM, El Servicio Secreto de Su Majestad).

Alejandro Eduardo Quezada Muñoz

Soy Comunicador Audiovisual de la ciudad de Temuco, al sur de Chile, además de trabajar creando piezas audiovisuales y contenidos para redes sociales, me he dedicado a ejercer la docencia en las aulas escolares sobre temas relacionados con la apreciación y realización cinematográfica. Me considero un amante del cine y un admirador de todas las expresiones artísticas.

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Soy periodista de la rama de la cinefilia y, en lo posible, escriba cuando la inspiración se digna a aparecer.

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The Violin: People of Earthly Colors

Pedro Páramo

Suspense

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Pedro Páramo: Kiss of Ghosts

Pedro Paramo

Suspense

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Monos, a Savage Tale

Apocalypse Now

Latin American cinema

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'El infierno': Once upon a time in Narcángel

Dark humor

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The Settlers : The Awakening of La Malinche

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Crime

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Latin American cinema

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'Extraordinary Stories': Beyond Cinema

Trenque Lauquen

Latin American cinema

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7 Boxes: The Montage of Dollars and Body Remains

The Gold Bug

Suspense

Cult

Road Movie

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El Conde: Story of a Deicide

The Passion of Joan of Arc

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Death in Buenos Aires: The Argentine Homme Fatal

Vertigo

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'Bacurau': Apocalypse of Cannibalism

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