Movies: October 2008 Archives

Maldeamores @ the Boston Latino International Film Festival more information Ostensibly a love story, Maldeamores is better described as a film about intimacy. It's about the closeness of lovers, that desire to become a part of the other person, and the odd estrangement that comes after you've learned too much and the passions fall away. It's a high-minded ideal that in another movie might have been told in strictly poetic words, but Maldeamores is more visceral, firmly planted in the real loves of ordinary......

While Spanish films have always had a certain cachet amongst American moviegoers, Latin American cinema has not always met with the same curiosity, and certainly not with the same critical engagement. But these last few years have been a breakthrough for Latin American movies in the US. Mexican directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo Del Toro all featured prominently at the 79th Academy Awards, with Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth considered by many to be the best movie of 2007. Only a few years earlier, City of God captivated American audiences with its mix of wistful, lighthearted storytelling and unflinching exploration of urban poverty in a society orphaned by drugs....