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Eréndira (1983)

 -  Drama  -  1 June 1984 (Mexico)
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While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in ... See full summary »

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Grandmother Amadis
Claudia Ohana ...
Erendira
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Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Oliver Wehe ...
Ulysses
Rufus ...
Photographer
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Ulysses' mother
Ernesto Gómez Cruz ...
Grocer
Pierre Vaneck ...
Ulysses' father
Carlos Cardán ...
Smuggler
Humberto Elizondo ...
Blacaman
Jorge Fegán ...
Army commander
Francisco Mauri ...
Postman
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Truck driver
Martín Palomares ...
Escort
Salvador Garcini ...
Puppet-player
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While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her. Written by Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu>

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Based on the story "La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada" ("The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother"), by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez. See more »

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Erendira: There was enough poison to kill a million rats.
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"La chanson de Margaret"
By Pierre Dumarchais and V. Marceau
Éditions Enoch
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27 September 2002 | by (Cyberia) – See all my reviews

This is a gorgeous movie visually. The images of the Mexican desert, the old mansion, the characters in their picturesque costumes...all amount to a real work of art.

The story seems a bit loose, but that's because it's not meant to be realistic. It is taken from a book called One Hundred Years of Solitude, and it is supposed to be an evocation of the isolated, otherworldly atmosphere of Latin America "so far from God, and so close to the United States". The tremendous debt that Erendira owes to her grandmother is symbolic of Latin America's international debt burden, although there many layers of meaning.

If you can appreciate a slow-moving, richly-textured movie, this one is for you.


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