Midaq Alley

El callejón de los milagros

Mexico

1995

140 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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PROD Georgina Balzaretti, Alfredo Ripstein

SCR Vicente Leñero, Naguib Mahfouz

CAST Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir, Delia Casanova, Margarita Sanz, Claudio Obregón, Juan Manuel Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Luis Felipe Tovar, Abel Woolrich, Gina Morett, Esteban Soberanes, Eugenia Leñero, Tiaré Scanda, Álvaro Carcaño, Eduardo Borja

SOUND David Baksht

Toronto, Berlinale (Competition): Special Mention, Sundance (World Cinema), AFI FEST (Gala), Abu Dhabi (Tribute)

Synopsis

Based on the Nobel Prize Winner’s novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City’s downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood and the connection between them Don Ru, the owner of the local pub; Eusebia, his wife; Chava, his son and Abel his friend, who emigrate to USA in search of fortune; Susanita, the single landtender always dreaming to marry a good man; Guicho, the pub’s employee, who extracts the money when Don Ru is not there and finally marries Susanita; Alma, the very good looking girl, the Abel’s dream, who becomes a luxury prostitute while he’s away; Jimmy, the handsome young man Don Ru becomes infatuated with, etc. This movie won the Ariel (the Mexican Oscar) as best movie in 1995. —IMDb

Director

Jorge Fons

Jorge Fons Pérez (born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico on April 23, 1939) is a Mexican film director. He belongs to the first generation of film directors of the UNAM. His short film, Caridad (1973), is still considered one of the best films in Mexican cinema. Two of the most important films of his filmography are Rojo amanecer (1989) and El callejón de los milagros (1995) based in the homonym book by Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley of 1947 (زقق المدق), which breaks the classic lineal plots in films. His 1976 film, Los albañiles, won the Silver Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. —Wikipedia