Word: barbachano
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Roots (Barbachano Ponce; Edward Harrison). The wind is blowing the world away. Over the cold, dry plain of Mexico, the dust devils march in pallid ranks like ghosts of the land-ravaging conquistadors. Into the storm an Indian leans, and with his mattock chops a hopeless furrow which the wind fills silently behind him."Who digs the land,"the Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly...
...rooted, God shines down upon him like the sun, and the ancient mold of village life supports him as a pot supports a plant. Nevertheless, he lives in a physical misery that is proper subject for the indignation of all feeling men, and with this picture Producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce (Torero!) has added a significant page to the cinematic literature of protest...
Torero! (Manuel Barbachano Ponce; Columbia). For every pound of bull fought, there has been a ton of bull thrown. The virtue of this picture, made in Mexico, is that it tells in plain words and simple pictures what a bullfight is like to the man who knows bullfights best: the bullfighter...
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