Apr 14, 2025
Agnès Varda - Autoportrait, 1953
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Agnès Varda - Autoportrait, 1953
PÁJAROS DE VERANO (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra, 2018)
Caramel (Nadine Labaki, 2007)
La tristeza en la carne de una mujer. El matrimonio como segunda etapa de la vida. La tristeza asumida. El cabello largo como cárcel de la feminidad. Conformismo. Presión estética. El amor después del matrimonio. El caramelo que es dulce y al mismo tiempo causa dolor.
Ten mexican movies directed by women to celebrate Mexican Cinema Day
August 15th was named Mexican Cinema Day in Mexico as a way to celebrate and promote all the national film production. So here are 10 movies that I love and, if you get a chance, you should watch:
1. Las niñas bien (2018) - dir. Alejandra Márquez Abella | A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico’s 1982 economic crisis.
2. Rush Hour (2018) - dir. Luciana Kaplan | A documentary of three people in three different cities, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, sharing their experiences on commuting - a sacrifice of half their lives for the sake of supporting themselves and their families.
3. Los Adioses (2017) - dir. Natalia Beristáin | In the fifties in Mexico City, Rosario goes against a society governed by men; Soon she will be one of the capital writers of Mexican literature. At the height of his career, in the maturity of marriage, a discussion breaks out that marks a point of no return.
4. Vuelven (2017) - Issa López | A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
5. El lugar más pequeño (2011) - dir. Tatiana Huezo | The inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador relive their life experiences during the civil war while remembering their loved ones.
6. Tamara y la Catarina (2018) - dir. Lucía Carreras | A story about feminine solidarity at México City. Doña Meche an old lonely lady and Tamara a mentally challenged woman in her forties, meet in their solitude in an endeavor to return a baby that Tamara took from a newspaper stand.
7. Batallas Íntimas (2016) - dir. Lucía Gajá | It is the story of five women from different countries who have survived or are trying to survive domestic violence.
8. Arcángel (2018) - dir. Ángeles Cruz | Arcángel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.
9. La Camarista (2018) - dir. Lila Avilés | A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.
10. Los días más oscuros de nosotras (2017) - dir. Astrid Rondero | Ana returns to her hometown of Tijuana after many years away. If her sister’s death is only a fragmented memory, her childhood home is a real and conflicting presence.
Solo el 7% de las películas más taquilleras de Estados Unidos en 2016 fueron dirigidas por mujeres.
Tal y como aparecen en la fotografía Ava DuVernay con su película Selma, Maren Ade con Toni Erdmann, Deniz Gamze Ergüven con su filme Mustang y Mélanie Laurent con su Respire son algunas de las que se encuentran entre las 15 directoras que revolucionarán el cine del futuro. Entre las más conocidas se encuentra Jennifer Lee con Frozen, una de las últimas películas de Disney más famosas en el pasado año 2016. España también se encuentra dentro de este ranking con la directora Paula Ortiz y su obra cinematográfica La novia.
Solo el 7% de las 250 películas más taquilleras en Estados Unidos durante 2016 estuvieron dirigidas por una mujer. Esta frase afirma que es evidente que las mujeres siguen sin tener las mismas oportunidades para sacar adelante proyectos cinematográficos de la gran pantalla, pero no paran de aparecer figuras femeninas dispuestas a reivindicar su derecho a contar historias. Aunque si hay cineastas ya consagradas como con Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion o Kathryn Bigelow, esta última la única mujer que ha ganado el Oscar a la mejor dirección.
Agnès Varda
Chantal Akerman por Marion Kalter, 1976
Agnès Varda - Daguerréotypes (1976)