Word: gael
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...renegade killer femmes do fantastic battle with the 9th century cops who pursue and fall in love with them. The Almodóvar and Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie element often lost in Cannes' ponderous auteur gazing: star quality. Bad Education's lead actor is Mexico's Gael García Bernal, who rocketed to international celebrity in Y Tu Mamá También, and who plays the young Ernesto Guevara, pre-Che, in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries. Salles makes icons of the struggling (but always beautiful) poor of South America until the movie becomes a kind...
...Mexico's has, the range of stories that can now be told on Latin American screens has increased. The region's new films "frame societies in the making ? based on our point of view," says Central Station director Walter Salles, who just finished directing Mexico's new heartthrob, Gael García Bernal, in a film version of Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries. That means less predictable storytelling. Even though Carrera's Crime of Father Amaro is a well-worn story of clerical lust and hypocrisy, its moral center is as inscrutable as Mexico itself. We hope the young...
...broadest sense of the term. He is ambitious to rise within his powerful if sclerotic organization--mostly because he wants to get its blood flowing. His only problem is that the bureaucracy to which he has committed his life is Mexico's Roman Catholic Church, and Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal, most recently in Y Tu Mama Tambien) is a priest whose largest doctrinal doubts center on celibacy...
...newly ordained Father Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) immune to scandal: In Los Reyes there is dirt on everyone and always a slimy gossipmonger surreptitiously on hand to dig it out or dish it out. On his first day at the church he meets Amelia, a devout yet promiscuous girl who first falls in love with him and then gives herself up, body and soul, for him. Away with celibacy, with chastity, with the Church—or perhaps...
...Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Garcia, Ana Claudia Talancon