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Media Type: Film Year: 1958 Who wrote / made it : Benito Alzaraki Plot summary: Released in 1958, Café Colón tells the story of Monica (María Félix), a nightclub singer working in the eponymous café in México City under siege. Again, she is a woman who “[n]unca jamás nadie puede dominarte”, when General Sebastián Robles…

Media Type: Film Year: 1953 Who wrote / made it : Rafael Baledon Plot summary: Cross-dressing is a source of absurd fun in Las Coronelas (Rafael Baledon, 1959). The film tells the story of twin daughters whose father’s life is saved through them being promised as soldiers to the ridiculous General Nicolas Rosas (Andrés Soler)…

Media Type: Film Year: 1965 Who wrote / made it : Rogelio A. González Plot summary: La Valentina (Rogelio A. González, 1965) stars María Félix as the eponymous heroine. By the mid-sixties, the subject of the Revolution has become tired. Instead of being the great heroine of the battlefield, La Valentina becomes a typical ‘raptada’…

Media Type: Film Year: 1958 Who wrote / made it : Ismael Rodríguez Plot summary: Pancho Villa y La Valentina opens and closes with a voiceover by Pancho Villa (Pedro Armendáriz) whose decapitated head is hidden away in a foreign, rat-infested warehouse. The film takes vignettes from the life of Villa to flesh out his…

Media Type: Film Year: 1966 Who made it : José Bolaños Plot summary: La soldadera follows the experiences of Lazara (Silvia Pinal) during the Revolution. She is a soldadera, as it is conventionally understood: she follows her partner, Juan (Jaime Fernández) into war and stays on after he dies to cook, nurse, carry arms, and,…

Media Type: Film Year: 2009 Who wrote / made it : Roberto Sneider Plot summary: The film tells the story of the relationship between Catalina Guzmán (Ana Claudia Talancón) and Andrés Ascencio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) set against the political machinations of post-Revolutionary Mexico. It is a faithful adaptation of the eponymous novel by Ángeles Mastretta,…

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