“A burned-out group of Brno intellectuals decides to go to Kolochava in Ukraine to perform ‘A Ballad for a Bandit’ there.” With these words, the author's collective presents their film, in which they use primarily documentary imagery to compose a lyrical grotesque about an epochal trip, which might be their goal. But it doesn't have to be. The main tool of expression here is the film’s edit, which places various shots, statements, and meanings next to each other, often in a sort of productive conflict. Just like in a poem, the “poetic function” of art and its ability to serve as the primary tool for expressing beauty is manifested in full force before our very eyes.
Para romper la supuesta maldición que sufre su hija Penélope, quien no ha podido embarazarse, Mercedes y su familia viajarán de México a República Checa para regresar a su lugar de origen la auténtica estatuilla del milagroso Niño Jesús de Praga. Sin embargo, este suceso desencadenará una serie de extraños incidentes, encuentros románticos y pequeños milagros que sólo pueden ocurrir en la mágica atmósfera navideña de la “Ciudad Dorada”.
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilized way through the social mire of the times.
