Word: bernal
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...seeing-impaired musical. But something similar, and potentially worse, happens: they all begin to whistle along. This ironically cheerful moment is abruptly severed, as the various wards form mock governments. The self-proclaimed “King of the Third Ward,” played by Gael Garcia Bernal, claims that he will only distribute food in exchange for women. In ridiculously cheesy “I am Spartacus!” fashion, the women of the ward all decide to prostitute themselves to save themselves from starvation. As a bright and jolly tune plays while the blind sex-fest...
...with life and death, with vivid characters who fought back against the charnel chaos. The people in Blindness are mostly passive, even the sighted wife, who has an advantage she declines to use while her new friends are humiliated and starved. The leader of the bad guys (Gael Garcia Bernal) dominates because he has a gun, which she could take from him at any time.) Yet she allows the women in her ward, and herself, to be sexually abused by the miscreants rather than take control, as any Hollywood heroine would do. She sees her role as a nurturer...
...Leguizamo and De la Reguera are the film's only Hollywood stars, and they deliver stellar supporting performances. But Brand gets superb portrayals from his Colombian leads: Angelica Blandon as the teen sexpot Reina; and Aldemar Correa, whom Brand calls "the next Gael Garcia Bernal," as her bewildered boyfriend Marlon. Blandon and Correa, who were discovered in Medellin's theater scene, play lower-middle-class kids driven less by economic straits than by a gratuitous belief that even the worst of the U.S. is preferable to the best their own country can give them. Sitting in a dank, cubicle-size...
...masterful account of a small Greek army trapped behind enemy lines, deep in the heart of the Persian Empire. Yet one of the stars of the show was Xenophon himself, his book a subtle piece of self-promotion. Likewise, Burrow makes a welcome exception for a memoir by Bernal Díaz, a humble foot soldier who arrived in Mexico with Cortés in 1519 and took part in toppling the Aztecs. Díaz looks back on those days in The Conquest of New Spain, a first-person account written as an old man living on a modest...
...part of their heritage. Recently a Chicago art gallery opened an exhibit showcasing images from Tepito - with Santa Muerte figuring prominently. And Santa Muerte may gain even more credibility with the release of Saint Death, a new documentary about the phenomenon, narrated by Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal...