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2nd Annual
Cine Mexicano:The Mexican Film Series
August-November 2000

Rare Screenings of the Best Contemporary Mexican Films!

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September 15-21, - New Dates
El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba
1999, Mexico, 118 min, 35mm,
In Spanish, no English subtitles

NEW Screening times:
Friday, Sept. 15th at 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday, Sept.16th at 7:30 & 9:45 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 17th at 5:15 & 7:30 p.m.

In Arturo Ripstein's El Coronel no tiene quiene le escriba, an adaptation of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, the old colonel (Fernando Lujan) goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his loving, exasperated wife (Marisa Paredes), still grieving over the death of their son the year before. But in this film of rapturous melancholy, life can be given meaning and drama by stubborn pride and nagging devotion. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing, subtly, a heart that has been broken but still beats with vengeance.

Winner Grand Jury Prize Latin American Cinema, 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Arturo Ripstein
Script: Paz Alicia Garcíadiego, based on a novel by Gabriel García Márquez
Producers: Jorge Sánchez, Gerardo Herrero, Thierry Forte, Laura Imperiale and Mariela Besuievsky
Cinematography: Guillermo Granillo
Music: David Mansfield

Starring: Marisa Paredes as Lola, Fernando Luján as El Coronel, Salma Hayek as Julia, Ernesto Yáñez as Don Sabas, Rafael Inclán as El Padre Ángel, Odiseo Bichir as El Doctor Pardo, Esteban Soberanes as Germán, Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Jacinta, Daniel Giménez Cacho as Nogales, Julián Pastor as El Abogado Lugones

For more information on this film, visit the official website at: http://www.foxmexico.com/peliculas/elcoronelnotiene/

At Mann Hazard Center 7 (7510 Hazard Center Drive in Mission Valley)

TXS: $7 General Admission / $5 Students and Seniors

Individual tickets can be purchased prior to each screening at the Mann Hazard Center 7 box office.

Rated R.

*Screening times are subject to change.