Eréndira 1983

Eréndira 1983

Eréndira 1983
1h 43m | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Release date: November 16, 1983 (France)

Storyline:

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother’s house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira’s surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.

User review:

Although this lovely work of art does use some of the cinematic vocabulary of surrealism, it is in fact nothing of the sort. It is a political and cultural allegory of Mexico’s post-Columbian odyssey, as even a passing glance at Mexico’s history will attest.

In contrast to “Like Water for Chocolate,” “Erendira” expects the viewer to meet it at least half way so that understanding it takes a little work. (A good starting point is to see the grandmother character as Spain: proud, aloof, sorrowful and, above all else, weighed-down-with-history.)

The ultimate actions of the heroine are obscure because the “outcome” of history (i.e. the present) is always obscure, since we are too close to it for honest evaluation. Refusal to neatly tie up loose ends is the only real choice available to the director, given the ambitions of the film.

“Erendira” is gorgeous. A big-screen experience would be ideal, if you can catch it at a local art house or university screening. But if not, VHS is better than never seeing it at all.

Director: Ruy Guerra
Writer: Gabriel García Márquez
Stars: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale
Countries of origin: Mexico, France, West Germany
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also known as: Erendira
Filming locations: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 5.80 GiB
Duration : 1 h 40 min
Overall bit rate : 8 282 kb/s

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