V. early film on Mexican national religious figure. Woman, anxious over spouse's perilous voyage, reads up on the Virgin of Guadaloupe. Flashback to Juan Diego's revelation of the Virgin is the body of the film.
Worth seeing for several reasons: some moving acting, even if the Virgin is something out of a pageant, and fundamentally a great story of indigenous re-imagination of Spanish Catholic religion. Title sequence, in which the actors are presented as their characters is very pictorial and poignant.
Mexican silent films as a group are very rare -- very few survive.
Shown in DC and NYC in 2004.
Worth seeing for several reasons: some moving acting, even if the Virgin is something out of a pageant, and fundamentally a great story of indigenous re-imagination of Spanish Catholic religion. Title sequence, in which the actors are presented as their characters is very pictorial and poignant.
Mexican silent films as a group are very rare -- very few survive.
Shown in DC and NYC in 2004.