JoaquínGutiérrezHeras &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:JoaquínGutiérrezHeras @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:39:09 +0200 Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/matinee-1977 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1977)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" National Easy Bake Oven Day/div div class="img" Matinée (1977)/div div class="caption" Friends Aarón (Rodolfo Chávez Martínez) and Jorge (Armando Martín) having a grownup discussion about the situation. DP: Jorge Stahl Jr../div div class="txt" ##### Two boys skip class to catch a movie – Alexander Mackendrick's thematically similar A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) – and end up as members of a violent gang instead. While Matinée has elements of a typical 70s #ComingOfAge movie, the more fascinating element is the role reversal of the two children and the robbers. As the kids are forced to grow up, fast, the criminals live out their childhood fantasy of never having to listen to anyone ever again. And bicker over comics. &nbsp; Robert Rodriguez stated that the fearsome criminals in his El Mariachi (1992) never outgrew their childhood nicknames. I start to suspect that once upon a time, a little boy named Robertiño skipped class and went to the matinee./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalEasyBakeOvenDay #JaimeHumbertoHermosillo #RodolfoChávezMartínez #ArmandoMartín #JoaquínGutiérrezHeras #JorgeStahlJr #ComingOfAge #crime #drama #Mexico #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1977)

Nov

4

National Easy Bake Oven Day

Matinée (1977)

Friends Aarón (Rodolfo Chávez Martínez) and Jorge (Armando Martín) having a grownup discussion about the situation. DP: Jorge Stahl Jr..

Two boys skip class to catch a movie – Alexander Mackendrick's thematically similar A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) – and end up as members of a violent gang instead. While Matinée has elements of a typical 70s #ComingOfAge movie, the more fascinating element is the role reversal of the two children and the robbers. As the kids are forced to grow up, fast, the criminals live out their childhood fantasy of never having to listen to anyone ever again. And bicker over comics.

 

Robert Rodriguez stated that the fearsome criminals in his El Mariachi (1992) never outgrew their childhood nicknames. I start to suspect that once upon a time, a little boy named Robertiño skipped class and went to the matinee.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalEasyBakeOvenDay #JaimeHumbertoHermosillo #RodolfoChávezMartínez #ArmandoMartín #JoaquínGutiérrezHeras #JorgeStahlJr #ComingOfAge #crime #drama #Mexico #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/matinee-1977 Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:01:17 +0100 Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/matinee-1977-qk3x <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1977)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" free candy/div div class="img" Matinée (1977)/div div class="caption" Best friends Aarón (Rodolfo Chávez Martínez) and Jorge (Armando Martín) helping out in Aarón's parents' convenience store while helping themselves to a snack or two. DP: Jorge Stahl Jr../div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #candy #JaimeHumbertoHermosillo #RodolfoChávezMartínez #ArmandoMartín #JoaquínGutiérrezHeras #JorgeStahlJr #ComingOfAge #crime #drama #Mexico #1970s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1977)

Aug

19

free candy

Matinée (1977)

Best friends Aarón (Rodolfo Chávez Martínez) and Jorge (Armando Martín) helping out in Aarón's parents' convenience store while helping themselves to a snack or two. DP: Jorge Stahl Jr..

#FilmDinner #candy #JaimeHumbertoHermosillo #RodolfoChávezMartínez #ArmandoMartín #JoaquínGutiérrezHeras #JorgeStahlJr #ComingOfAge #crime #drama #Mexico #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/matinee-1977-qk3x Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:07:23 +0200 El lugar sin límites [The Place Without Limits] (Arturo Ripstein, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/el-lugar-sin-limites-1978 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" El lugar sin límites [The Place Without Limits] (Arturo Ripstein, 1978)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" Gay Uncles Day/div div class="img" El lugar sin límites (1978)/div div class="caption" Pancho (Gonzalo Vega) watches La Manuela (Roberto Cobo) dance flamenco for him. DP: Miguel Garzón./div div class="txt" Cabaretera, a sub-genre from the Epoca de Oro (the golden epoch of Mexican filmmaking, 1930s—1950s), combines film noir with melodrama and musical numbers. Often set in cabarets (brothels), these films talk about the plight of the prostitute who – not without their pride and dignity – are forced to being the breadwinner in a poverty-stricken community. &nbsp; El lugar sin límites harks back to those days. We follow the plight of La Manuela, a transvestite who together with daughter La Japonesita works as a fichera (a dancehall performer) in the brothel run by Madame La Japonesa, La Japonesita's mother. &nbsp; ##### The return of Pancho, a hyper-macho trucker, disrupts the family regime. The trucker's attraction to the #flamenco dancing fichera is at odds with his machismo. Him being outed as a maricón (a Mexican slur for homosexual) would be the end of his world. &nbsp; ##### El lugar remains a groundbreaking film, not only in how it handles taboos like #gender roles and trans- and homosexuality, but also because it highlights how (self) destructive #machismo is in Mexican society. &nbsp; Sergio de la Mora's excellently researched EL LUGAR SIN LÍMITES: Ripstein in Review delves much deeper than this little writeup here. Do read it (spoilers ahead). &nbsp; Roberto Cobo's La Manuela is transsexual. The term "transvestite" is what's used in the film and typical for its time./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #GayUnclesDay #ArturoRipstein #JoséDonoso #RobertoCobo #GonzaloVega #JoaquínGutiérrezHeras #JoséPadilla #MiguelGarzón #BookAdaptation #LGBT #drama #Mexico #1970s/div /section ]]>

El lugar sin límites [The Place Without Limits] (Arturo Ripstein, 1978)

Aug

13

Gay Uncles Day

El lugar sin límites (1978)

Pancho (Gonzalo Vega) watches La Manuela (Roberto Cobo) dance flamenco for him. DP: Miguel Garzón.

Cabaretera, a sub-genre from the Epoca de Oro (the golden epoch of Mexican filmmaking, 1930s—1950s), combines film noir with melodrama and musical numbers. Often set in cabarets (brothels), these films talk about the plight of the prostitute who – not without their pride and dignity – are forced to being the breadwinner in a poverty-stricken community.

 

El lugar sin límites harks back to those days. We follow the plight of La Manuela, a transvestite* who together with daughter La Japonesita works as a fichera (a dancehall performer) in the brothel run by Madame La Japonesa, La Japonesita's mother.

 

The return of Pancho, a hyper-macho trucker, disrupts the family regime. The trucker's attraction to the #flamenco dancing fichera is at odds with his machismo. Him being outed as a maricón (a Mexican slur for homosexual) would be the end of his world.

 

El lugar remains a groundbreaking film, not only in how it handles taboos like #gender roles and trans- and homosexuality, but also because it highlights how (self) destructive #machismo is in Mexican society.

 

Sergio de la Mora's excellently researched EL LUGAR SIN LÍMITES: Ripstein in Review delves much deeper than this little writeup here. Do read it (spoilers ahead).

 

*Roberto Cobo's La Manuela is transsexual. The term “transvestite” is what's used in the film and typical for its time.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #GayUnclesDay #ArturoRipstein #JoséDonoso #RobertoCobo #GonzaloVega #JoaquínGutiérrezHeras #JoséPadilla #MiguelGarzón #BookAdaptation #LGBT #drama #Mexico #1970s

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