April 21, 2008
Cine Las Americas Daily Schedule: Monday
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Regal Metropolitan 14, 3pm
All audiences
A delightfully sexy version of Jorge Amado’s novel about the refashioning of a mulatto scholar into a national hero, and the cultural benefits of racial crossbreeding. This witty and human film offers a carnivalesque panorama of life in Bahia, the area of Brazil most imbued with the spirit of African culture. - New Yorker Films
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Director: Gael García Bernal
Regal Metropolitan 14, 6pm
Mature audiences
Déficit, the first feature from director Gael García Bernal, follows Cristóbal, the son of a corrupt politician. He is a twenty-something, over-privileged snob, and an opportunist. When his father is forced to flee Mexico to escape corruption charges, Cristóbal exploits the situation by arranging a huge party at his parents’ country house. On arrival he finds his sister, her hippy friends, and the family who live and work there as groundskeepers. What follows is a clash of ego, class and politics, as the glaring schisms in Mexico’s social structure are laid bare over the course of one chaotic night of excess and indulgence.
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Director: Lucía Puenzo
Regal Metropolitan 14, 8pm
Mature audiences
Alex is a 15 year-old child with a secret. Shortly after birth, her parents decide to remove her to an isolated cabin in the suburbs of Piriápolis. The story begins with the arrival of a couple and their adolescent son. The inevitable attraction between the two children forces everyone to confront what they most fear.
Director: Alejandro Springall
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 9:45pm
All audiences
According to Jewish belief, from the moment a child is born, he or she is accompanied by two angels – the angel of light and the angel of darkness. With the passing of the elderly Moishe, his family and friends gather to sit shivah, the seven-day Jewish mourning ritual. The spirit of Aleph and Bet, divine accountants, watch over the mourners’ actions and comment about the deceased to calculate which angel will accompany Moishe’s soul to the afterlife. Set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, and filmed in Spanish, Yiddish and Hebrew, Morirse está en hebreo is a dramatic comedy about how the death of a man results in the celebration of his life.
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