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Divine

El evangelio de las maravillas

Mexico, Spain, Argentina

1998

112 Min
Color
Spanish
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DIR Arturo Ripstein

PROD Alfredo Ripstein Jr., Laura Imperiale, Jorge Sánchez

SCR Paz Alicia Garciadiego

DP Guillermo Granillo

CAST Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado, Julieta Egurrola, Flor Eduarda Gurrola, Patricia Reyes Spíndola

ED Ximena Cuevas

PROD DES Mónica Chirinos

MUSIC David Mansfield

Synopsis

“La Nueva Jerusalem” is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado). They’re waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they’ve abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa (Gurrola) the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in “La Nueva Jerusalem”. —IMDb

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Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director who got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, in which he began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. 

Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity.

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Este trabajo de Arturo Ripstein (su último film en 35 mm) recuerda, por momentos, a Angel de fuego de Dana Rotberg, en lo que se refiere al seguimiento de las delirantes actividades de una singular comunidad religiosa y los tragicos acontecimientos que se desatan alrededor de sus fanaticos. La misantropa visión del director se halla presente como siempre, pero, más que por otra cosa, la cinta llama la atención por su estupendo reparto encabezado por Francisco Rabal (en un papel completamente atipico) Katy Jurado (en su penultima aparición frente a las camaras) y la presencia cachonda de Flor Eduarda Gurrola como la perversamente virginal adolescente y futura lider de la secta. La cinta gozó de un relativo exito en los circitos culturales mexicanos, pero comercialmente, fue un rotundo fracaso.

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