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Nov 10, 2006 · Las vueltas del citrillo: Directed by Felipe Cazals. With Damián Alcázar, José María Yazpik, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Zárate. Mexico, the beginning of the 20th century; in the times of the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship, the film does not surrender to the temptation of a meticulous historical chronicle.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Felipe Cazals
- 2006-11-10
Las vueltas del citrillo es una película mexicana de 2005 dirigida por Felipe Cazals que, siendo un drama, presenta elementos de fantasía, realismo fantástico y realismo mágico.
Set in Mexico City at the beginning of the 20th century, in the times of the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship, the film does not surrender to the temptation of a meticulous historical chronicle. Rather, the film's scope is deliberately narrow; instead of a grandiose, revolutionary epic, it remains closer to a chamber piece, a sort of grotesque, colloquially exuberant and highly cinematic portrayal ...
Period film gorgeously photographed with deeply etched characters and conflicts, set within a larger context of socio-political developments in pre-revolutionary Mexico, in 1903, the 19th year of the repressive regime of Porfirio Diaz, who had through colossal will and brutal force transformed the economy, built a national railroad system, and suppressed the civil chaos that had ruined Mexico ...
Las Vueltas del Citrillo. Mexico, the beginning of the 20th century; in the times of the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship, the film does not surrender to the temptation of a meticulous historical chronicle.
1903, before the Revolution The Citrillo s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions.