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Don't be left out from seeing the very best of Mexican Cinema. Buy a Cine Mexicano Series Pass today to guarantee your seat! Click here.
November 16 - 22
Del Olvido Al No Me Acuerdo
1998, 35mm, Color, 75 min., Mexico, Documentary
In Spanish, WITH English subtitles
Screening times:
- November 16, Friday - 7:30 & 10:00 p.m. (Click here for details on Opening Night Reception)
- November 17, Saturday - 12:45, 3:00, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m
- November 18, Sunday - 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m
- November 19 - 22, Monday thru Thursday - 5:15, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m
*Note: Filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo will be in attendance at the Opening Night Reception and at the Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m. screenings
- Official Selection, 2000 Sundance Film Festival
- Official Selection, 24th Toronto International Film Festival
- Golden Gate Award, 2001 San Francisco International Film Festival
- Ariel winner for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND, EDITING and FIRST WORK at the 2000 Mexican Academy of Arts & Sciences.
- Winner of BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM at the The World Film Festival Montreal 1999
- Coral winner for BEST DOCUMENTARY at the 1999 Havana Film Festival of New Latin-American Cinema
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Never before screened in San Diego, Del Olvido Al No Me Acuerdo is the kind of inspirational film that composes a delicious poem of identity and memory, as a son journeys to reconstruct the life of his father. The result is a montage of hauntingly beautiful images and stories that are merged to form one of Cine Mexicano 2001's most mesmerizing gems. Director Juan Carlos Rulfo is the son of renowned Mexican writer and poet, Juan Rulfo. Returning to the town of Jalisco, Mexico, Rulfo interviews all of the elders who remember his late father. This results in an often humorous revelation that, along with the remembered details, there are just as many forgotten, unsaid details. It is soon apparent that the accounts brought forth by Jalisco's elders are woven of threads of the real, the borrowed, and even the invented -- resulting in what the director coins as "docu-fiction."
First-time director, Juan Carlos Rulfo, creates a mature, personal, and contemplative portrait of the geography of human relationships that surround his father's past. It is not simply the story of a great poet but a lyrical ballad of a village and the hard, yet dignified, life of its inhabitants. The director is also after something else -- the milieu that produced the man who, it is said, invented magic realism. He finds a preserved universe of sung poetry and salty spontaneity, of weathered philosophies and tales grown and nurtured. Rushing clouds, rocks that shimmer with stillness against a startling sky, endless plains photographed from above -- a surreal vision, showing space as time (and so, as memory).
Like the sunbaked earth, the old folks of Jalisco have formed a crust that holds in memory and holds back time. Not ghosts at all, they’ll be very much alive until the last minute. As one man muses, "There won’t be another world as good as this one.
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Cinematography: Federico Barbabosa
Editors: Ramón Cervantes, Juan Carlos Rulfo
Producers: Maria Fernanda Suarez & IMCINE
Principal cast: Justo Peralta, Rebecca Jimenez, Jesus Ramirez
To read more about this wonderful film, please visit the following websites:
Juan Carlos Rulfo (Director, Producer)
Juan Carlos Rulfo, 35, is an experienced photographer, curator, assistant director and sound recordist. This is his first feature-length documentary. Juan Carlos studied film production at Mexico City's highly respected film school, the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). Mr. Rulfo currently lives and works in Mexico City.
Location: Mann Hazard Center 7 (7510 Hazard Center Drive in Mission Valley)
Tickets: $7.50 General Admission / $5.50 Students and Seniors
Individual tickets can be purchased prior to each screening at the Mann Hazard Center 7 box office. For advanced tickets, click here (link to tickets page)
This film is appropriate for all ages.
Print Source:
- La Media Luna Producciones, S.A.,
- Felipe Villanueva #98-201, Colonia Guadalupe Inn, DF0-10-20 Mexico City, Mexico.
- fax: 525-651-35-84
- e-mail: calvario@prodigy.net.mx
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