Watching THE DEVIL SMOKES got me thinking about how over the last decade Mexican filmmakers have been incredibly successful in telling stories about childhood and those pivotal moments when children become aware of the unfairness of the world, when they grow up 🇲🇽 Here’s a thread:
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Dir. Lila Avilés
An intimate ensemble piece where a family’s acts of tenderness are seen as experienced through the sorrowful gaze of a young girl. A luminous and soul-nourishing microcosm built on profound love in the face of impending grief.
Dir. Samuel Kishi
Like a fable whispered in your ear by a soothing voice, the film radiates melancholic warmth with its story of a mother and her sons starting from scratch in a foreign land. In a world severely lacking compassion, this is a cinematic tight embrace.
Dir. Tatiana Huezo
A magnificently lucid portrait of girlhood under siege, the film is a slice of life portrayal accentuated with unassuming visual poetry. Violence is never explicitly shown but remains a looming force that underscores every scene.
Dirs. Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero
Born to a sicario father, Sujo is orphaned at age four. The older he gets the more he learns of the blood-soaked legacy he stans on. A work of tremendous lyrical potency about breaking cycles against all odds.
Dir. Issa López
With graffiti scrawled on the walls of an abandoned city populated by orphans, this poetically haunting fairy-tale addresses Mexico’s ongoing drug-related violence with an unblinking brand of social realism.
Dir. Tatiana Huezo
A melancholically lush and intricately humanist gem, takes its name from a rural village in the Mexican state of Puebla, not too far from bustling Mexico City. There, both young girls and older matriarchs hold down the fort.
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