
Cinema de Lágrimas (1995)
Directed by
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Runtime: 95 min
Country: Brazil / Mexico
Language: Portuguese
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Stereo
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112676/
A Brazilian director goes to Mexico city to study the great Mexican melodramas of old. He meets a student he had previously met in Brazil and he becomes his assistant. But the student begins to miss the projections, behaving mysteriously. The director suspects something strange must be happening. But he will only find that out back in Brazil... Investigation about the melodrama myths, paying homage to South America cinema, especially the Mexican, in the 1930s until the 1950s, when Mexican moviemaking had stars like Maria Felix and Dolores Del Rio. The film took part in the British project celebrating the 100 Years of Cinema.
(The first NP dos Santos film available on mule! I hope someday can find his early Brazil new cinema classics.)