Originally posted by JESSE
Well, i have no idea what you where watching, but Mexican cinema is experiencing a boom.
Jesse, I tried to pull up the link, but it wouldn't go through. Can you update it? If there's more good stuff out there, I'd love to see it. I'm a
big foreign flick fan. But trust me, Mexican film has historically been absolute, world renowned schlock, most often incredibly violent plotless
garbage having to do with the skankiest element of people who live and die in the slums of Mexico City. I just saw one just like that about a year ago
in La Paz. I forget the name (something having to do with the kitchen), but it began with a sloppy drunk love scene where this smashed guy finds out
his equally smashed lover is a transvestite and graphically cuts off his organ and throws it out the window. Believe it or not, there was plenty of
room for the movie to go downhill from there! I had to walk out after about a half an hour. Sooo bad.
My dad was the distributor for Columbia Pictures in Mexico for 25 years. By virtue of being close to someone who worked in the industry, I've seen my
share of really bad Mexican films and heard more than one good joke (as above), on just how famously bad they were. If there are some passable ones
out there now, it would go more in the category of "nacence" than "renaisance". As ripe as the Mexican psyche is with good material, it's always
amazed me at how few fine films have come out in the last 25 years. If the good stuff is there, there won't be any problem finding a market. That's
for sure. - Stephanie |
!