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Macario. A gifted Mexican director and cameraman make a touching ceremony out of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death...
Macario. A gifted Mexican director and cameraman make a touching ceremony out of B. Traven's profound little fable of the woodcutter who sups with Death...
Macario. A gifted Mexican director and cameraman make a touching ceremony out of B. Traven's profound little fable of the woodcutter who sups with Death...
...woodcutter's wish is the golden key that opens one of the gloomiest and loveliest volumes of European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
Finally, like a man departing suddenly into a dream, Traven forgets all about his principal characters, including even the invaluable piglets, and turns his novel into a featureless mass drama which he can neither inspire nor bring to a conclusion. His Rebellion winds up as third-rate Uncle Tom's Cabin, with the debilitating difference that the slavery Traven writes about with John Brown heat has already been abolished...