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Felipe Cazals is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Thanks Mexicain born on 28 july 1937
Felipe Cazals (born 28 July 1937) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer his parents were from France but he is registered as born in Mexico, D.F. His wife is Rosa Eugenia Báez de Cazals.
Together with Arturo Ripstein is considered in Mexico one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks Las Inocentes (1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), El Apando (1976) and Canoa (1976), make him considered to be one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Aquellos años was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
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Felipe Cazals
Together with Arturo Ripstein is considered in Mexico one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks Las Inocentes (1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), El Apando (1976) and Canoa (1976), make him considered to be one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Aquellos años was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Biography
Né au Pays basque français, Felipe Cazals vit au Mexique depuis l'enfance. Au début des années soixante, il bénéficie d'une bourse pour étudier à l'IDHEC à Paris. En Europe, il devient l'assistant de réalisateurs comme Joshua Logan et Mauro Bolognini. Rentré au Mexique, il collabore à l'émission de télévision La hora de Bellas Artes, sous la coordination de Manuel Michel pour lequel il réalise ses premiers courts métrages (Que se callen, Leonora Carrington o el sortilego, Cartas de Mariana Alcoforado) en 1965. Cazals réalise son premier long métrage en 1968, La manzana de la discordia (La Pomme de discorde) en tant que production indépendante. Film noir situé à contre-courant des conventions du genre, La manzana de la discordia marqua une rupture dans le cinéma mexicain de l'époque. Afin d'ouvrir une brèche dans le cinéma industriel dominant, Cazals forme avec Arturo Ripstein et Rafael Castanedo un groupe éphémère, le Cine Independiente de Mexico qui produit en 1969, grâce à la vente de tableaux légués par ses amis peintres, son deuxième long métrage, Familiaridades (Familiarités), une comédie désopilante plutôt atypique dans l'œuvre de ce cinéaste. Il participe ensuite au cinéma commercial classique en réalisant des films historiques à gros budget comme Emiliano Zapata (1970), projet conçu, financé et interprété par Antonio Aguilar, acteur-chanteur de nombreuses comédies rancheras ou El jardín de tía Isabel (Le Jardin de tante Isabelle), l'année suivante, avec le soutien de fonds publics. 1975 constitue un tournant décisif de sa carrière : Canoa, récompensé au Festival de Berlin 1976, et El apando (Le Mitard), adaptation d'un roman de José Revueltas sur les conditions de vie des prisonniers de droit commun, sont restés des films fondamentaux du cinéma mexicain et ont attiré un public massif.Usually with
Filmography of Felipe Cazals (10 films)
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Those Years (1974)
, 2h22Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Helena Rojo, Julián Pastor, David Silva, Mario Almada, Ramón Menéndez
Roles Senador Cap. Morgan
Rating66%
Director
, 1h58Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Documentary films about law enforcement
Actors Vanessa Bauche
Rating64%
Luz's Motives (1985)
, 1h36Directed by Felipe Cazals
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Actors Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Ana Ofelia Murguia, María Prado
Rating71%
Luz, sans travail et sans argent, abandonnée par son amant, est accusée d'avoir tué sa progéniture. Les preuves de sa culpabilité font pourtant défaut. Emprisonnée, elle tente de se rappeler les circonstances du drame. Le film s'inspire d'un cas authentique, que l'on a appelé au Mexique l'affaire de La Fiera del Ajusco (La Médée de l'Ajusco ) : une jeune mère, pauvre et ignorante, Elvira Luz Cruz, originaire d'un quartier proche du volcan Ajusco, au sud de Mexico, est arrêtée pour l'assassinat de ses quatre enfants, le 12 août 1982. En septembre 1984, au cours d'un procès entaché d'irrégularités, la jeune femme est alors condamnée à vingt-huit ans de prison par la Cour supérieure de justice de son district.
The Year of the Plague (1978)
, 1h49Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Daniela Romo, Gabriel Retes, José Carlos Ruiz, Martin LaSalle, Leonor Llausás, Ramón Menéndez
Rating62%
A dreadful sickness is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listens to him and soon the illness spreads. The government tries to manage the information in order to prevent terror.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
, 1h55Directed by Felipe Cazals
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Historical, Crime
Actors Sergio Calderón, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Manuel Ojeda
Rating77%
The film is based on real events about a group of young employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla who go mountain climbing to La Malinche and have to spend the night in a small town called San Miguel Canoa, where they are confused with communist students. Then during mass the right wing town priest encourages the people to lynch them.
The Heist (1976)
, 1h23Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Sergio Calderón
Rating73%
Those Years (1974)
, 2h22Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Helena Rojo, Julián Pastor, David Silva, Mario Almada, Ramón Menéndez
Rating66%
Aunt Isabel's Garden (1972)
, 1h44Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Claudio Brook, Jorge Luke, Julián Pastor, Alfonso Arau
Rating60%
Zapata (1970)
Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Antonio Aguilar, Mario Almada, David Reynoso, José Baviera, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Stella Inda
Rating69%
Scriptwriter
, 1h58Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Documentary films about law enforcement
Actors Vanessa Bauche
Rating64%
Those Years (1974)
, 2h22Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Helena Rojo, Julián Pastor, David Silva, Mario Almada, Ramón Menéndez
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Producer
Duck Season (2004)
, 1h25Directed by Fernando Eimbcke
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about children
Actors Diego Cataño
Roles Consulting Producer
Rating71%
Flama et son ami Moko, deux copains de 14 ans, se retrouvent seuls un dimanche toute la journée. La mère de Flama doit aller travailler et leur laisse l'appartement et un peu d'argent. Passionnés de jeux vidéo, ils s'imaginent, malgré l'ennui qui s'insinue, que le temps passera nonchalamment. C'était sans compter avec deux évènements inattendus : une coupure de courant qui invite leur jeune voisine Rita pour faire cuire son gâteau, et le livreur de pizza express qui arrive onze secondes trop tard.
The Year of the Plague (1978)
, 1h49Directed by Felipe Cazals
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Daniela Romo, Gabriel Retes, José Carlos Ruiz, Martin LaSalle, Leonor Llausás, Ramón Menéndez
Roles Producer
Rating62%
A dreadful sickness is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listens to him and soon the illness spreads. The government tries to manage the information in order to prevent terror.
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Herod's Law (1999)
, 2hDirected by Luis Estrada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Alex Cox, Delia Casanova, Isela Vega, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Roles Thanks
Rating77%
After the mayor of the fictional village San Pedro de los Saguaros is lynched by angry villagers, a petty PRI party member named Juan Vargas (Damián Alcázar) is appointed temporary mayor by the state governor. At first the new mayor attempts to do good but a lack of funds cripples his efforts, and the bribe of a brothel owner sets him on the path to corruption. Seeking help from his superior, the secretary to the PRI governor, he is given a copy of the constitution of Mexico and a revolver and is told that the only law is Herod's law: literally translated: "either you get screwed or you get fucked." (O te chingas o te jodes).