Widow Paramo has lost her husband to the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide, with El Muerto—the eater of souls— preparing himself to welcome her into the darkness. Paramo must triumph over Death in the boxing ring if she wishes to save both her husband and daughter.
Though he has risen to prominence for acclaimed feature-length films such as Dracula and My Winnipeg, Canada’s Guy Maddin remains a highly prolific, inventive virtuouso of a short film form. Here is one of our favorites: an outrageously deranged comic reimagining of Mexican melodrama.
France
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João Pedro Rodrigues, 1997, Portugal
Joana Preiss, 2013, France
Agnès Varda, 1988, France
Guy Maddin, 1988, Canada
Bertrand Mandico, 2018, France
Bertrand Mandico, 2013, France
Jim Jarmusch, 2005, United States
Alice Colomer-Kang, 2012, France
Benoît Forgeard, 2012, France
José Luis Valle, 2013, Mexico
