
Film Info
Los últimos cristeros
Film Information
Exhibition Title | Los últimos cristeros |
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Original Title | Los últimos cristeros |
English Title | The Last Christeros |
Director | Matías Meyer |
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Year | 2011 |
Format | 35 mm |
Colour | Color |
Duration | 90' |
Cast:
- Intérpretes / Cast: Alejandro Limón, Jesús Moisés Rodríguez, Antonio García, Salvador Ferreiro, Abel Lozano
Production:
- Guión / Scriptwriter: Matías Meyer, Israel Cárdenas
- Fotografía / Cinematography: Gerardo Barroso Alcalá
- Edición / Editing: León Felipe Gonzalez
- Producción / Producer: Julio Bárcenas, Matías Meyer
- Compañía Productora / Production Company: Axolote Cine, Imcine, Eficine, Una Comunión, IDTV Film
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Synopsis
The final days of a band of 1930s Christian rebels in the central Mexican wilderness are depicted with majestic stoicism in Matías Meyer’s elegant ode to independence, The Last Christeros. Although the project is the product of considerable research as well as an adaptation of Antonio Estrada’s acclaimed novel Rescoldo, the Last Christeros, the film is free of factoidal narrative, and has been de-dramatized to convey the experience of being a guerrilla fighter. Perhaps perversely to some, with the action here largely consisting of what happens between the battles, The Last Christeros encourages an artistic choice that emphasizes the deeper spiritual core of these guerrilla fighters (their journey through the mountainous desert recalling that of biblical figures like the Three Kings), with the existential quests that define Meyer’s two previous film (Wadley, The Cramp).
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