Santitos
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Actor: Alberto Estrella, Ana Bertha Espín, Darío T. Pie, Demián Bichir, Dolores HerediaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Santitos
Movie Review: A Hint of the Latin American Magical Realism
Summary: 4 Stars
SANTITOS is a charmingly rendered film based on a novel by Maria Amparo Escandon and directed by Alejandro Springall, a film that has a parable of a story told in a magical realism manner that is so endearing in Latin American culture. This particular film comes to us from Mexico and is filmed in Vera Cruz, Tijuana, and Los Angeles. Briefly, Esperanza (or "hope" in translation and played by Dolores Heredia) has lost her 13-year-old daughter to a mysterious virus during a routine tonsillectomy. Mystery surrounds her death and her burial and in Esperanza's grief she is visited by St Jude (in dirty oven door!) who 'reveals' that her daughter is still alive. Esperanza visits her priest Father Salvador (played by Fernando Torre Lapham in one of the finer comic roles in Latin cinema) who recommends she search for the daughter St Jude has advised 'in a secret miracle' is still alive. She attempts to dig up the sealed coffin but is thwarted. Further 'advice' suggests her daughter may have been sold into prostitution so she travels first to Tijuana and ultimately to Los Angeles, seeking her daughter. The lessons of her journey - including the discovery of true love in the form of an angel - Angel is a wrestler who wears a mask and feathery wings (played by Alberto Estrella) - and ultimately returns to Vera Cruz and an ending to her journey that is as surprising as its inception. There is a wonderful sense of magic to the sets, the costumes, the vast assortment of Santos that appear everywhere, and yes, even to the acting, which always walks graciously along the path that borders excess. It all works and makes the story fun, touching, and ultimately insightful. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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