José Agustín

José Agustín

Birth : 1944-08-19, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Death : 2024-01-16

History

José Agustín Ramírez Gómez (19 August 1944 – 16 January 2024), better known simply as José Agustín, was a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most influential and prolific Mexican writers of the second half of the 20th century.

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José Agustín

Movies

You're Killing Me Susana
Novel
An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.
Abolition of Property
Novel
(In a dark basement) Norma hears the faint voice of Everio and her own, from an Ampex vintage tape recorder. They have been talking incessantly, and *oftentimes the taped conversations coincide with their *chats. The only thing troubling Norma is that until that day, she and Everio had never met and the last she heard was Everio strangling her.
City of the Blind
Writer
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
Love Around the Corner
Writer
After breaking out from jail and being rescued by an enigmatic driver, Maria begins a journey through Mexico City's nocturnal life
Deveras me atrapaste
Borracho
Teen angst in Mexico City is made all the worse by a young provincial woman's infatuation for a ghost, in this effective drama about disturbed youth. Aida arrives in Mexico City and is immediately introduced into the world of drugs and sex by the friends she meets. Before long, she is having visions of the ghostly "El Humo" ("Smoke") and after she meets him at a party, they both are struck by Cupid's arrow. After some back-and-forth stepping around the nature of their relationship, El Humo disappears for five days, and Aida is distraught -- she locks herself up in her dark room, smokes some weed, takes a few hallucinogenic mushrooms, and then has a vision that clears up the mystery surrounding El Humo.
La viuda de Montiel
Writer
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
The Year of the Plague
Writer
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic. (IMDb)
A House Without Boundaries
Story
Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village.
Ya se quien eres (te he estado observando)
Screenplay
A surreal romantic comedy
Ya se quien eres (te he estado observando)
Director
A surreal romantic comedy
Alguien nos quiere matar
Writer
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.