Latin American & Iberian Film Series
Trinity College
Spring 2003
OPEN TO ALL
English Subtitles • Guest Speakers • Information: 297- 5256 or 297- 4273
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credits, plots, and directions
Wednesdays, 7:30 PM
February 5 Frida
Cinestudio (Julie Taymor, USA/Canada, 2002, 118 min.)
February 12 Cuestión de fe (A Matter of Faith)
LSC (Marcos Loayza, Bolivia, 1995, 86 min.)
February 19 Real Women Have Curves
Cinestudio (Patricia Cardoso, USA 2002, 90 min.)
February 26 Disparen a matar (Shoot to Kill)
LSC (Carlos Azpúrua, Venezuela, 1990, 90 min.)
March 5 El crimen del padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro)
Cinestudio (Carlos Carrera, Mexico/Spain/Argentina / France, 2002, 118 min.)
March 12 Julio comienza en julio (Julio Begins in July)
LSC (Silvio Caiozzi, Chile, 1977, 120 min.)
March 26 Nueve reinas (Nine Queens)
LSC (Fabián Belinsky, Argentina, 2000, 114 min.)
April 2 Ele o boto (The Dolphin)
LSC (Walter Lima Jr., Brazil, 1987, 96 min.)
April 9 Confesión a Laura (Confessing to Laura)
LSC (Jaime Osorio, Colombia/Cuba/Spain, 1991, 90 min.)
April 16 Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too)
LSC (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 2001, 105 min.)
April 23 En el tiempo de las mariposas (In the Time of the
LSC Butterflies) (Mariano Barroso, USA, 2001, 95 min.)
Cinestudio (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2002, 112 min.)
Prices:
Free admission for all films in Life Science Center.
Cinestudio: $6 general admission, $5 for students, educators and senior citizens.
Organized by:
Maribel Acosta-Lugo and Vilma Navarro-Daniels (Modern Languages and Literature)
Sponsored by:
The Spanish Club, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Women’s Center, RIBS, Latin American Studies Program, the Programa de Estudios Hispánicos en Córdoba (PRESHCO), and Cinestudio
February 5 Cinestudio
Frida (USA / Canada, 2002) Directed by Julie Taymor. Biography. 118 mins.
Plot: From her complex and enduring with her mentor and husband, Diego Rivera, to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic and sexual revolutionary. Frida chronicles the life of Frida Kahlo shared openly and unflinchingly with Diego Rivera as this controversial couple took the art world by storm. http://www.miramax.com/frida/
Speaker: María Mielgo-Castro, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College
February 12 LSC
Cuestión de fe (A Matter of Faith) (Bolivia, 1995) Directed by Marcos Loayza. Comedy/ Road Movie. 86 mins.
Plot: Two Bolivian saint makers are ordered by a gangster to construct a life-size Virgin and deliver it to a small village in the jungle. Accompanied by their friend, a notorious gambler, they proceed to have misadventures which test their respective faiths in God and gambling. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0139956
Speaker: Maribel Acosta-Lugo, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College
February 19 Cinestudio (Co-sponsored by Women’s Center & RIBS)
Plot: Naturally beautiful and full-bodied actress America Ferrera plays Ana, a Mexican American whose graduation and scholarship to Columbia University threaten the family’s unity and the control by her mother, who tells stories of runaway girls with disastrous ends and the admonition. Like teenagers in any culture, Ana is trying to break away from a domineering culture and mother while she also achieves a balanced acceptance of her zaftig body. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0296166
Speaker: Claire Wiseman, Psychology Dept., Trinity College
February 26 LSC
Disparen a matar (Shoot to kill) (Venezuela, 1990) Directed by Carlos Azpúrua. Action. 90 mins.
Plot: An innocent man is murdered during a police round-up while his mother watches. Refusing to accept the official version of the story, she launches a campaign for justice. A journalist begins to investigate the story at the risk of his own life.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099439
Speaker: Luis Figueroa, History Dept., Trinity College
March 5 Cinestudio
El crimen del padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro) (Mexico / Spain / Argentina / France, 2002) Directed by Carlos Carrera. Drama. 118 mins.
Plot: Based on a novel by Portuguese author, Eca de Queiroz. The truest crime of the film is the web of cover-ups and lies that the church creates in order to propagate its cause. The crime of Padre Amaro is not so much that he acted upon his human impulses as that he accepts the corruption of the church by participating in its lies and creating lies of his own. http://www.padreamaromovie.com/home.htm
Speaker: Thomas Harrington, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College
March 12 LSC
Julio comienza en julio (Julio Begins in July) (Chile, 1977) Directed by Silvio Caiozzi. Black and white. Social portrait / Coming-of-age film. 120 mins.
Plot: This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society. Director Silvio Caiozzi makes an excellent job recreating the rural Chile at the turn of the century. The psychological treatment of the characters and how crude and unmanageable the reality can be for an adolescent when too much is expected from him. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076247
Speaker: Radost A. Rangelova, Trinity College
March 26 LSC
Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens) (Argentina, 2000) Directed by Fabián Belinsky. Crime / Drama / Mystery. 114 mins.
Plot: Two small-time grifters, Marcos and Juan, team up to pull off a big-time score involving a set of extremely valuable counterfeit stamps knows as the Nine Queens. The tricky negotiations that ensue bring into the picture a cast of suspicious characters, including Marcos’sister Valeria, their younger brother Federico and a slew of thieves, conmen and pickpockets. As the deceptions mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom http://www.metrofilms.com/9reines/
Speaker: Gustavo Remedi, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College
April 2 LSC
Ele o boto (The Dolphin) (Brazil, 1987) Directed by Walter Lima Jr. Legend. 100 mins.
Plot: The Dolphin is a tale of power, fantasy and sensuous desire set on the beautiful beaches of Brazil. It's an enchanting story surrounding the seductive legend of a dolphin-man called Boto. On moonlit nights women become helpless victims to their desire for him. The hidden sensuality that Boto exposes in his women and the permanent danger that surrounds the town where they live create a climactic ending where a man, a woman and Boto face off. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092907
Speaker: Fabiola von Hollen, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College
April 9 LSC
Confesión a Laura (Confession to Laura) (Colombia / Cuba / Spain, 1991) Directed by Jaime Osorio Gómez. Political drama. 90 mins.
Plot: Set during a violent civil war in Columbia which occurred after the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Elieser Gaitain in 1948. Three people are trapped in Laura’s house during a riot, setting the scene for an unforgettable night.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101610
Speaker: Darío Euraque, History Department, Trinity College
April 16 LSC
Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too) (Mexico, 2001) Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Sex Comedy/Coming-of-Age. 105 mins.
Plot: A pair of randy upper-class buddies sparked some controversy for its frank depiction of drug use and sexual exploration. Julio and his friend Tenoch are looking forward to a summer full of drink, drugs, and cheap meaningless sex. They meet Luisa and convince her to go on a road trip. Soon simmering jealousies boil over into savage arguments, threatening to completely destroy their friendship.
http://www.ytumamatambien.com/ENGLISH/WEB/escoge.html
Speaker: Students Hist 339 (Modern Mexico), Trinity College
En el tiempo de las mariposas (In the Time of the Butterflies) (USA, 2001) Directed by Mariano Barroso. Political and historical drama. 95 mins.
Plot: An idealistic young woman falls for a rebel leader and takes on a murderous dictator. Today, November 25 is observed in many Latin American countries as the International Day Against Violence Towards Women. This is based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, whose deaths became the final blow to the regime of Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated six months later. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0263467
Speaker: Stacey Alba Skar, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College
Hable con ella (Talk to her) (Spain, 2002) Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Drama. 112 mins.
Plot: After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco’s girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. http://www.sonyclassics.com/talktoher/
Speaker: Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trinity College