Manuel Espinosa Yglesias
During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built throughout the country upon crime and corruption. Ever since, Uncle Miguel was ridiculed and eventually forgotten, but it is certain that his proclaim announced the separation of Mexican cinema and its audience. Discoveries may be found in the films made by Miguel, and bringing back to life these moving pictures might recover this history that was never told, a story that is almost lost and that Contreras Torres himself tried to pass on through his writings in The Black Book of Mexican Cinema.
DT Bruno López
Los hermanos de la película son Beto "el Rudo", que quiere ser futbolista, y Tato "el Cursi", que quiere ser cantante. Ambos ven en sus sueños la posibilidad de superar su condición y no dudan en seguirlos hasta el final en esta comedia que, con una mirada aguda, refleja y cuestiona nuestras formas de ser. Que habla de la hermandad puesta a prueba, de la rivalidad por el amor a una mujer y a una madre, de la superación enfrentada al arribismo, de las debilidades a flor de piel. De quién apuesta por la pasión y quién por el talento.
