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.
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Tessa Joosse, 2009, France
Peter Tscherkassky, 1983, Austria
Vittorio De Sica,Luchino Visconti,Federico Fellini,Mario Monicelli, 1962, Italy
Patrik Eklund, 2009, Sweden
François Ozon, 2012, France
Miguel Gomes, 2013, Portugal
Walerian Borowczyk, 1966, France
Hervé P. Gustave, 2011, France
Alejandro Small, 2014, Peru
Geneviève Hamon,Jean Painlevé, 1965, France
