''Día de muertos'' ("Day of the Dead"), also known as ''Día de difuntos'' and ''Los hijos de la guayaba'',
("The Children of the Guava") is a 1988 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by
Luis Alcoriza. It is Alcoriza's penultimate film as director and his last one made entirely in Mexico;
his last film directed, ''
La sombra del ciprés es alargada
''La sombra del ciprés es alargada'' () is a 1990 Mexican-Spanish film directed by Luis Alcoriza. It is based on the book of the same name, written by Miguel Delibes.
Cast
Release
Distributed by United International Pictures, the film was r ...
'', was a Mexican-Spanish co-production.
Plot
In a cemetery on the
Day of the Dead, the lawyer Talamantes is going to place a cross on his mother's grave. There, he meets with other assistants who commemorate his relatives: a bricklayer, a poet, the shoemaker Zacarías, the plumber Baltazar and the hairdresser Pedro, with their respective families. In the heat of alcohol, they all argue, show their weaknesses, resolve disagreements in couples, fight, flirt, reconcile and swear each other eternal friendship.
Cast
*Pedro Weber as Baltazar (as Pedro Weber "Chatanuga")
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Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez Martínez (born 17 October 1946) is a Mexican actor and comedian who has appeared in over 140 films and television shows in Mexico.
Biography
Manuel Ibáñez Martínez was born on 17 October 1946, the youngest of four ...
as Zacarías
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Carmen Salinas as Cholita
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Adalberto Martínez
Adalberto Martínez Chávez (25 January 1916 – April 4, 2003), better known in the entertainment world as Resortes, was a renowned Mexican actor. Known primarily for his talent as a comedian, Resortes was also a dancer. His stage name is Spanis ...
as The Thief (as Adalberto Martinez "Resortes")
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María Rojo as Yolanda
*Sergio Ramos as Pedro (as Sergio Ramos "El Comanche")
*Patricia Rivera
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Ernesto Gómez Cruz as The Poet
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Leticia Perdigón as Martha
*Edgardo Gazcón as Salvador
*Eugenia Avendaño as Enriqueta
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Fernando Luján as Francisco de Jesús Talamantes
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Raúl Araiza
Raúl Araiza (; born Raúl Araiza Herrera on 14 November 1964) is a Mexican actor and television presenter.
He studied drama in the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External ...
as Beto
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Héctor Suárez
Héctor Suárez Hernández (; 21 October 19382 June 2020) was a Mexican actor, comedian, director and also CTO of Hatch. He appeared in about a hundred films and television shows in a career that spanned 60 years. He was noted for satirizing tho ...
Analysis
In an interview collected in the book ''Memorias de posguerra: Diálogos con la cultura del exilio'' by Manuel García García, director Luis Alcoriza described his film thus, "''
película salió muy dura. Era una agresión frontal al sistema y a la moral dominante. Había una burla agresiva a la muerte que superaba la crítica común del mexicano.''" ("The movie came out very hard. It was a frontal assault on the dominant system and morals. There was an aggressive mockery of death that surpassed the common criticism of the Mexican.") He added, "''La gente se asustó un poco. La peícula es divertida pero con un fondo violento. Abordé el tema de la figura de la madre de manera muy frontal y eso aquí no está bien visto.''" ("People got a little scared. The movie is funny but with a violent background. I approached the subject of the figure of the mother in a very frontal way and that here is not well seen.")
See also
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Day of the Dead
References
External links
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1988 films
1980s Spanish-language films
1988 comedy-drama films
Mexican comedy-drama films
Films directed by Luis Alcoriza
Day of the Dead films
1980s Mexican films
Spanish-language comedy-drama films
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