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DVD

The devil never sleeps = El diablo nunca duerme

Call Number

  • DVD 362.28 D494 (CEN)

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Languages

In Spanish, with English subtitles.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (82 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo mines the complicated intersections of analysis and autobiography, evidence and hypothesis, even melodrama and police procedure in this documentary. Early one Sunday morning, the filmmaker receives a phone call informing her that her beloved Uncle Oscar Ruiz Almeida has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in Chihuahua, Mexico. His widow declares his death a suicide. Most of his family, however, cry murder and point to a number of suspects that include the widow herself. Portillo returns to the land of her birth to investigate her uncle's identity and death. Finding clues in old tales of betrayal, lust, and supernatural visitation, Portillo blends traditional and experimental techniques to capture the nuances of Mexican social and family order. Poetic and tragic, humorous and mythic, this film crosses the borders of personal values, cultural mores, and the discipline of filmmaking in a fascinating look at family mysteries.

Notes

Originally produced as a documentary in 1994. Container and disc surface erroneously reads 1996.

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