Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.
Direction
Hermosillo filming his own adolescence with uncomfortable honesty.
Writing
A director literally writing himself into existence through cinema.
Director
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hermosillo was 67 when he made this, essentially directing his own ghost. Most of his cast were complete unknowns from actual small Mexican towns.
This belongs to a tiny subgenre: Mexican directors autobiographizing their cinephile childhoods. See also: Cuarón's Roma, but make it broke and bitter.
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