Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Birth : 1942-01-22, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Death : 2020-01-13

History

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo (January 22, 1942 - January 13, 2020) was a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar. Born in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, in central Mexico, Hermosillo's films often explore the hypocrisy of middle-class Mexican values. He worked with Gabriel García Márquez on "Mary My Dearest" in 1979 and "The Summer of Miss Forbes" in 1988. His 1991 film "Homework" was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Mention. Hermosillo taught filmmaking at the University of Guadalajara, where he collaborated with his students on various of his last projects.

Profile

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Movies

Crime of Omission
Director
A suicide pact and a love triangle, framed in betrayal and perversion.
Crime of Omission
Screenplay
A suicide pact and a love triangle, framed in betrayal and perversion.
Un buen sabor de boca
Writer
The film tells the embarrassing event that breaks out when the protagonist of a pornographic film fails to fulfill during the filming, his commitment to maintain an indispensable erection in front of the cameras. His impossibility has hilarious consequences, culminating in the arrival of a mysterious character who claims to be a specialist in pornographic videos.
Un buen sabor de boca
Director
The film tells the embarrassing event that breaks out when the protagonist of a pornographic film fails to fulfill during the filming, his commitment to maintain an indispensable erection in front of the cameras. His impossibility has hilarious consequences, culminating in the arrival of a mysterious character who claims to be a specialist in pornographic videos.
InFielicidad
Screenplay
Four tales about unfaithfulness. The story takes, almost completely, the form of theatre and rations the action in four acts perfectly divided one from the other, which build an effective reflection about unfaithfulness. However, as it is usual in Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s cinema, where on many times the sexual tension defines the characters’ psyche who become more complex and multidimensional, the approach is not subject to the moral margins, already outworn by the melodrama.
InFielicidad
Director
Four tales about unfaithfulness. The story takes, almost completely, the form of theatre and rations the action in four acts perfectly divided one from the other, which build an effective reflection about unfaithfulness. However, as it is usual in Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s cinema, where on many times the sexual tension defines the characters’ psyche who become more complex and multidimensional, the approach is not subject to the moral margins, already outworn by the melodrama.
Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado
Writer
Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.
Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado
Director
Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.
El vicio amoroso
Cinematography
The disturbing emotional relationship of two brothers with irreconcilable attitudes towards life.
El vicio amoroso
Director
The disturbing emotional relationship of two brothers with irreconcilable attitudes towards life.
El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Producer
Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.
El malogrado amor de Sebastián
Director
Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.
Amor
Producer
The presence and tortuous inner life of a film student stimulate the creativity of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and promote the making of a film, Rencor. A combination of fiction and behind the scenes.
Amor
Writer
The presence and tortuous inner life of a film student stimulate the creativity of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and promote the making of a film, Rencor. A combination of fiction and behind the scenes.
Amor
Director
The presence and tortuous inner life of a film student stimulate the creativity of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and promote the making of a film, Rencor. A combination of fiction and behind the scenes.
Dos auroras
Screenplay
When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father.
Dos auroras
Director
When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father.
Rencor
Writer
A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover, and her life is forever changed as she tries to protect herself and him from the impending investigation.
Rencor
Director
A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover, and her life is forever changed as she tries to protect herself and him from the impending investigation.
El edén
Writer
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.
El edén
Director
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.
The Mystery of the Almond Trees
Director
A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as “Mrs. Open Mind.” The widow’s summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of mysterious and evil incidents that occur there.
eXXXorcisms
Producer
Conflicted gay man makes contact with the ghost of his boyfriend from teenaged years.
eXXXorcisms
Screenplay
Conflicted gay man makes contact with the ghost of his boyfriend from teenaged years.
eXXXorcisms
Director
Conflicted gay man makes contact with the ghost of his boyfriend from teenaged years.
Mal de hogar
Production Supervisor
An intense and claustrophobic story of family relationships between an authoritarian mother, a libertine daughter and a homosexual son.
Escrito en el Cuerpo de la Noche
Screenplay
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Escrito en el Cuerpo de la Noche
Director
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Absence
Script
To spy on the consequences of his deliberate absence, a man hides for a long time in the basement of his house.
Absence
Director
To spy on the consequences of his deliberate absence, a man hides for a long time in the basement of his house.
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Writer
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Director
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
Danish Girls Show Everything
Director
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
Encuentro Inesperado
Director
Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of her admirers, but who appears in her room is the new maid, Estela...
Forbidden Homework
Screenplay
A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.
Forbidden Homework
Director
A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.
Homework
Writer
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
Homework
Director
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
Bathroom Intimacy
Producer
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
Bathroom Intimacy
Editor
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
Bathroom Intimacy
Screenplay
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
Bathroom Intimacy
Director
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
The Summer of Miss Forbes
Writer
Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.
The Summer of Miss Forbes
Director
Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.
Un Momento de Ira
Screenplay
Un Momento de Ira
Director
El aprendiz de pornógrafo
Director
Roman, a television student, invites his former lover, Lilia, to his apartment. With a small video camera placed at ground level, he will try to record the seduction and the subsequent intercourse. The film, made entirely with a Hi 8 video camera, plays with the viewer's perspective by presenting a set of situations susceptible to different readings.
Clandestine Destiny
Writer
In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.
Clandestine Destiny
Screenplay
In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.
Clandestine Destiny
Director
In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.
Doña Herlinda and Her Son
Writer
A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.
Doña Herlinda and Her Son
Director
A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.
The Heart of the Night
Screenplay
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
The Heart of the Night
Director
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Deceitful Appearances
Writer
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Deceitful Appearances
Director
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Confidencias
Screenplay
Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...
Confidencias
Director
Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...
Maria of My Heart
Writer
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Maria of My Heart
Director
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Naufragio
Writer
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Naufragio
Director
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Free Love
Director
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
Idilio
Writer
Idilio
Director
Matinée
Writer
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
Matinée
Director
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
Cuartelazo
Embajador
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
The Passion of Berenice
Screenplay
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen.
The Passion of Berenice
Director
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen.
The Birthday of the Dog
Writer
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
The Birthday of the Dog
Director
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
The Master of Ballantrae
Writer
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
The Master of Ballantrae
Director
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
Los meses y los días
Young woman wants to move out of her parents' house, but it's not yet a cultural norm for unmarried women to live alone, and she faces lots of different problems in her attempts toward liberation.
Magdalena’s True Vocation
Screenplay
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
Magdalena’s True Vocation
Director
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
Los nuestros
Director
Young woman with romantic problems puts her trust in the wrong person to help her solve them.
Homesick
Writer
Young man from "the provinces" adrift in Mexico City.
Homesick
Director
Young man from "the provinces" adrift in Mexico City.