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The Cremator
Why this pick
Its elegant period surfaces, macabre humour and increasingly deranged inner logic echo Buñuel’s blend of bourgeois polish, murderous fantasy and surreal discomfort.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1955 1h 29m MEX
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ernesto Alonso) is a wealthy Mexican man. As a privileged child during the Mexican Revolution, he witnessed the death of his governess, who died as she told him a fable about a music box that his mother had just given him. Because of the contents of the story and the coincidental timing of the governess's death, a young Archibaldo concludes that he had killed the woman using the music box. It is from there that his desire to kill begins.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rita Macedo
Patricia Terrazas