Following Nazarín belongs to the documentary genre, although it is a creative documentary,in which the knowledge of the director about the film Nazarín- directed by Luis Buuel in 1959 – and Luis Buuel (Javier Espada was the director of the Calanda Buuel Center since its creation in 2000).
Two old prostitutes go back to their hovels. One of them has problems with the teenage daughter and the husband devoted to cross-dressing. The other one lives completely alone, with no ties. However, that night they have an appointment to celebrate the in-ring victory of two midget wrestlers. The film is based on the true story of two wrestlers found dead in a Cuauhtemoc hotel ...
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
色衰愛弛,慾望卻不肯老去;記憶衰退,妒忌仍未許忘掉。她依舊沉默,在探戈的試探中尋覓愛與被愛的感覺;他繼續怒憤,在情婦懷裏渴求妻子的慰藉。老夫妻由互相深愛變為彼此折磨,困於各自的孤寂。女兒已離巢遠去,留下只有年輕女傭,打理家居之時,試圖理順兩個被心魔磨蝕的生命。墨西哥大師利普斯坦以冷峻且溫柔的黑白光影,探進垂暮情慾與執迷的幽微地帶,伴着《藍天使》的悠揚樂韻,讓愛與痛在皮囊的皺摺間,深邈迴盪。
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell ...
For 18 years Gabriel Lima, the father of a large family, the business man, producing anti-rodent, keeps in captivity all his family to protect them from the corrupting influence of civilization. But his project to create perfect children, whom he called Utopia, Porvenir and Voluntad, breaks down under the influence of internal contradictions and conflicts.