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Whipped to a frenzy during Holy Week, the brothers assemble on Good Friday, each band with a lucky one chosen to be the Cristo. To the thin wail of the pipe and the dull sound of whips, they proceed to a hill of Calvary. The Cristo carries a heavy cross to which, on the hill, he is lashed so tightly that he turns black and puffy. The cross is hoisted up. The Cristo cries: "For the love of God, not with a rope ! Nail me ! Not with a rope ! For the love of God, nail...
...Penitentes no longer use nails because too many Cristos have died that way. For 45 minutes the Cristo hangs on the cross while around him his brothers chant, wail, scourge themselves with whips and cactus. Then the victim is cut down, carried back to the morada where awaits an enfermero with brews and unguents...
...BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR THE 39 STEPS with Robert Donat, the Monte Cristo hero . . . The MAN who put the MAN in RoMANce...
...Romans interpret those letters according to their sympathies-Sacra Citta Vaticano (Holy Vatican City): Stato Civile Vaticano (Vatican Civil State) ; or Se Cristo Vedesse (If Christ...
...revival is "Animal Kingdom," starring Ann Harding as the mistress whose lover was unfaithful to her, via his wife. The superficiality of the plot, and the obvious trickness of the reversed situation of wife and mistress, does not make this film worth seeing, but "The Count of Monte Cristo" is worth the sacrifice. Better still, arrive after the one, and just before the other...