Pasión según Berenice, La (1976)

Director:

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Writer:

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo (writer)

Release Date:

18 November 1976 (Mexico)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Berenice (Navarro) is a woman with a mysterious past. A scar crosses her face and nightmares of fire and horses fill her lonely nights...

Plot Keywords:

Affair | Scar | Spinster | Repression | Widow

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.	...	Rodrigo Robles
Martha Navarro	...	Berenice Bejarano
Blanca Torres	...	Merceditas
Emma Roldán	...	Josefina
Magnolia Rivas	...	Cuquita Andrade
Manuel Ojeda	...	José
Mario Oropeza
María Guadalupe Delgado	...	Praying woman
Evangelina Martínez	...	Miss Linares
Alma Levy	...	Young girl
Roxana Saucedo
Cecilia Leger	...	Rodrigo's mother
Jorge Luis Papademetriu	...	Young pupil
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alejandro Todd		(as Alejandro Rodríguez)

Also Known As:

The Passion of Berenice (USA)

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Company:

Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE)

Disturbing and definitely worth watching

"The Passion According to Berenice" is an interesting, detailed character study, with great performances by everyone involved, but ultimately worth watching for Martha Navarro. Her character is one that you won't soon forget: quiet, polite, sensitive, and, in the end, downright scary. Her detached personality makes it almost impossible to tell what she is thinking at any given moment, and this cold ambiguity makes her as memorable a character as, say, Hannibal Lecter. The talented director is very creative and puts in lots of small details that may or may not be important later on. It's an overlooked (in America, anyway) gem of a film that shouldn't be missed if you ever get a chance to watch it.