Paul Leduc

Paul Leduc

Nascimento : 1942-03-11, Mexico City, Mexico

Morte : 2020-10-21

História

Paul Leduc é diretor, roteirista, produtor e crítico de cinema. Começou a trabalhar com cinema ao final da década de 1960 e durante esse período, passou por um momento de renovação do cinema mexicano, quando aproximou-se do movimento do Cinema Novo brasileiro.

Perfil

Paul Leduc

Filmes

O Cobrador
Writer
Um assaltante invade mansão durante o réveillon e aprisiona os presentes. Como não teve a chance de estudar, trabalhar e levar uma vida digna, ele utiliza o assalto para cobrar esta dívida que existe não apenas com ele, mas com todos os pobres.
O Cobrador
Director
Um assaltante invade mansão durante o réveillon e aprisiona os presentes. Como não teve a chance de estudar, trabalhar e levar uma vida digna, ele utiliza o assalto para cobrar esta dívida que existe não apenas com ele, mas com todos os pobres.
Bartolo's Flute
Editor
A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.
Bartolo's Flute
Producer
A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.
Bartolo's Flute
Writer
A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.
Bartolo's Flute
Director
A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.
The Animals 1850 - 1950
Producer
A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
The Animals 1850 - 1950
Writer
A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
The Animals 1850 - 1950
Director
A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
Dollar Mambo
Writer
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
Dollar Mambo
Director
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
Latino Bar
Writer
A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.
Latino Bar
Director
A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.
Baroque
Writer
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
Baroque
Director
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
As You See?
Director
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
Frida Still Life
Writer
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Frida Still Life
Director
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
The Oil Conspiracy
Writer
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
The Oil Conspiracy
Director
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
Pulgarcito's Forbidden Stories
Director
It is a cinematographic adaptation made by the Museum of the Word and Image (Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen - MUPI) of the book of the same name by the poet Roque Dalton
Enrique Cabrera
Editor
Documentary short film about Enrique Cabrera Barroso, a Mexican university student leader of the 1968 student movement and member of the Mexican Communist Party.
Enrique Cabrera
Producer
Documentary short film about Enrique Cabrera Barroso, a Mexican university student leader of the 1968 student movement and member of the Mexican Communist Party.
Enrique Cabrera
Writer
Documentary short film about Enrique Cabrera Barroso, a Mexican university student leader of the 1968 student movement and member of the Mexican Communist Party.
Enrique Cabrera
Director
Documentary short film about Enrique Cabrera Barroso, a Mexican university student leader of the 1968 student movement and member of the Mexican Communist Party.
Crowned Nuns
Director
Documentary short film winner of a couple of Ariel awards. It deals with "crowned nuns" or "portraits of crowned nuns," a pictorial genre of portraiture that emerged during the colonial period of New Spain in the 17th century.
Crowned Nuns
Writer
Documentary short film winner of a couple of Ariel awards. It deals with "crowned nuns" or "portraits of crowned nuns," a pictorial genre of portraiture that emerged during the colonial period of New Spain in the 17th century.
Ethnocide: Notes on El Mezquital
Editor
Through the direct testimony of the Indians, the phenomenon of acculturation suffered by the Otomí minority of the Mezquital Valley, one of the poorest rural areas of the state of Hidalgo, in Mexico, is analyzed. It tries to show a broader problem that encompasses a large part of the Continent; how other peoples, other ethnic groups, are exterminated with all kinds of mechanisms, from brutal repression to the most sophisticated cultural penetration.
Ethnocide: Notes on El Mezquital
Writer
Through the direct testimony of the Indians, the phenomenon of acculturation suffered by the Otomí minority of the Mezquital Valley, one of the poorest rural areas of the state of Hidalgo, in Mexico, is analyzed. It tries to show a broader problem that encompasses a large part of the Continent; how other peoples, other ethnic groups, are exterminated with all kinds of mechanisms, from brutal repression to the most sophisticated cultural penetration.
Ethnocide: Notes on El Mezquital
Director
Through the direct testimony of the Indians, the phenomenon of acculturation suffered by the Otomí minority of the Mezquital Valley, one of the poorest rural areas of the state of Hidalgo, in Mexico, is analyzed. It tries to show a broader problem that encompasses a large part of the Continent; how other peoples, other ethnic groups, are exterminated with all kinds of mechanisms, from brutal repression to the most sophisticated cultural penetration.
Study for a Portrait: Francis Bacon
Writer
Documentary short film about the famous English character.
Study for a Portrait: Francis Bacon
Director
Documentary short film about the famous English character.
Bach and his Interpreters
Writer
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
Bach and his Interpreters
Director
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
The Sea
Writer
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
The Sea
Director
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
Cultural Extension
Writer
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
Cultural Extension
Director
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
South: Southeast 2604
Editor
In the future, a couple hides from their pursuers in the archaeological ruins of Tulúm, on the beaches of Cozumel, and in the hubbub of a day out in an indigenous town.
South: Southeast 2604
Writer
In the future, a couple hides from their pursuers in the archaeological ruins of Tulúm, on the beaches of Cozumel, and in the hubbub of a day out in an indigenous town.
South: Southeast 2604
Director
In the future, a couple hides from their pursuers in the archaeological ruins of Tulúm, on the beaches of Cozumel, and in the hubbub of a day out in an indigenous town.
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Writer
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Director
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Whoever is Responsible
Writer
Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.
Dispatches from the National Strike Council
Director
Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo, Óscar Menéndez and other students filmed the CNH assemblies and took to the streets to record the rallies, demonstrations and confrontations that the various student groups held against the police and the army throughout 1968.