Etiqueta: Real facts
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Marisol
The child prodigy of Spanish cinema. Marisol (Pepa Flores) has been one of the most iconic actresses in Spanish cinema. At the tender age of eight, she was already performing with a dance group, where she was discovered by a producer who launched her to fame and the show business machine. The show business…
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Uncle Bill
A pop culture icon's time in Mexico. The 40s. Famous writer William S. Burroughs (Bill) began his career as one of the most mythical and mad characters of the slums of New York City. He experimented with any and every drug he could get his hands on, and quickly turned into a heroin addict,…
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The Millionaires of War (Los millonarios de la guerra)
To make millions you don't need to win the war. December of 2006, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared the war on drugs, an era of blood and fire that has left hundreds of thousands dead. However, a handful of businessmen, some associated with former Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, used this crisis to…
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Rocío Dúrcal: Follow Me (Rocío Durcal: Acompañame) (Film)
A diva with a voice of her own. Rocío Dúrcal was destined to be a star. Her first television appearance made her the icon that Spanish cinema yearned. Success would soon follow, thanks to the films and songs that allowed the whole world to watch her grow from a little girl to a woman.…
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I Can’t Hear the Children Play (No oigo a los niños jugar)
The silence is deafening. After a tragic, life-altering accident, 17-year-old Alma isn’t sure she can cope with her new, cruel reality. After the loss of her parents, she suffers post-traumatic shock, which leads her to attempt to take her own life. Her attempt is unsuccessful, and she is immediately checked in to a clinic…
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Leopard in the Sun (Leopardo al sol) (TV Series)
Blood is paid with blood. Two families, the Barragán's and Monsalve's, are engaged in a bloody war. It all started when Nando Barragán murdered Adriano Monsalve, his first cousin. At the time, both families lived in close proximity in the desert and under the same business. After Adriano's death, the two families abandoned…
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Cherubs in Hell (Querubines en el infierno)
The harrowing story of Mexicans who fought for the U.S. in World War II. Cannon fodder: that is what the Mexican migrants who enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in World War II were, under the promise of citizenship and recognition from a country that had reluctantly adopted them. Los Angeles, during…
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A Mexican in Every Child (Un mexicano en cada hijo te dio)
Beautiful and beloved Mexico is what it is today thanks to figures from its history. There are illustrious figures who have something, or everything, to do with what is "Mexicanness" today, often relegated to the shadows of oblivion. Beyond the official history, a group of Mexicans throughout history have had the chance to influence, for better or worse, the life and culture of the country, but whom disdain has erased from memory. Heroes of flesh and blood, villains or stars that shined only to be suddenly dimmed. Figures such as Isabel Moctezuma: the last Aztec princess; Jesús García Corona, the hero of Nacozari; Gilberto Bosques, "the Mexican Schindler"; Tezozomoc, the terrible chief of Tacuba; Lorenzillo, the terror of the seas of Campeche; Jesús Malverde, the saint of the narcos; Hilda Krüger, the Nazi spy who was also the mistress of a Mexican president;…
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No Corpses (Sin cadáver) (TV Series)
The dead that don’t exist. No confession, no witnesses, no dead bodies, no biological remains, yet a conviction. This is the real case of Ramon Laso, a Spanish serial killer convicted in 1993 for the murders of his first wife and six-year-old son, and in 2014 for the murders of his second wife…
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The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo (El libro secreto de Frida Kahlo)
A story full of colors and flavors. Frida is Mexico itself. After "dying" for the first time in a terrible car accident, Frida Kahlo reaches an agreement with her godmother, Death. In exchange for Frida preparing an offering in the form of a banquet for her every year on the Day of the Dead, Death allows her to live. Frida wrote down the recipes for each banquet dedicated to Saint Death in a black notebook she called “The Book of Holy Herbs”. The day this notebook was to be shown to the public for the first time in an exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts, it disappeared. Haghenbeck imagines that this notebook was a gift from the other great Mexican female icon, Tina Modotti (Frida Kahlo's lover), after the accident. The author narrates in first person the life of Kahlo, a free, authentic and controversial woman who broke stereotypes with her beauty and celebrated her Mexican identity in all areas. It delves into her decisions, thoughts and secrets, with a constant presence of death through two characters, The Messenger, represented by the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, and her Godmother, Death, who warns Kahlo that she will die the day her rooster Cui-cui-ri stops crowing. In an intimate and personal way, it reconstructs the most important passages of Kahlo's life, including her childhood, full of suffering and illness, and the accident she had in her youth, which caused injuries from which she never recovered, and which impregnated so much of her art. It also deals with her revolutionary interest in politics and her friendships and adventures with several of the most influential personalities of the time, such as Leon Trotsky and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. It explores her complex relationship with Diego Rivera, her infidelities, her pregnancy and subsequent loss of the baby, her life in the United States, her divorce and her return. One day, Frida Kahlo orders her rooster Cui-cui-ri to be cooked. That same day, she dies. RELEVANT DATA: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo is a novel inspired by the life of the Mexican artist. F.G. Haghenbeck takes the disappearance of The Book of Holy Herbs as the starting point for a journey through the life and thoughts of the Mexican artist, with a touch of magical realism and seasoned with Mexican gastronomy. The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo was a finalist in the International Latino Book Awards and winner of the Gourmand Award in France, making him the first Latin American writer to receive this distinction.? …
