Under the notion that "you can not change the future, but the past," a young woman who has grown up in a poor village in the highlands, embarks on a spiritual journey to Mexico City seeking to break the cycle of family alienation and find hope. Fate will return to the source to destroy and start over.
Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his village are seductive meat. He already has the table set, without knowing that the pig affection will tell him what the pantheons are full of.
Rocío
돈밖에 모르는 부패한 한 마을의 시장이 농민들에게 처참히 살해당한 뒤, 평범한 잡역부 후안은 얼떨결에 새로운 시장으로 임명된다. 그는 야심찬 이념과 새로운 시도로 마을을 개선하려 하지만, 여러 가지 곤란을 겪으면서 좌절하고 마는데... 1990년대 중반까지 멕시코 정치계를 주름잡던 제도 혁명당(PRI)을 비판한 정치 풍자극이다. 처음으로 이름이 거론된 비판이었기에 당국으로부터 많은 압박을 받으며 논쟁거리가 되었으나, 2000년에 선댄스, 멕시코 아리엘 어워드 등에서 수많은 상을 휩쓴 화제작. (2009 제10회 멕시코 영화제)
Mireya Botero
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
