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MICHEL FRANCO’S HIJAS DE ABRIL

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Filmmaker Michel Franco—elliptical investigator of Mexico’s bourgeois and its discontents—examines the outer limits of the maternal imperative in his trenchant new drama LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (April’s Daughter), screening twice at AFI FEST 2017.

Emma Suarez—recently seen in Almodovar’s Julietta—stars as Abril, and her adult daughters are played by Ana Valeria Becerril and Joanna Larequi. The women are aided and abetted by Enrique Arrizon, who plays a useful idiot straight out of Pasolini’s school of beautiful-but-dim extras.

 

LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL/APRIL’S DAUGHTER

Sunday, November 12, at 4 pm, and Wednesday, November 15, at 3:45 pm.

CHINESE SIX-PLEX, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Ana Valeria Becerril and Emma Suarez in Las hijas de Abril (2017).

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LOS CAIFANES AT AFI

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A pair of upper-middle-class party goers leave their revels and stumble into what they thought was an abandoned car. It actually belongs to the leader of the gang Los Caifanes (“the big shots”), and so begins a serendipitous journey through the cabarets and dives of 1960s Mexico City, “all set to the social turmoil and psychedelic force” of the capital.*

This weekend, as part of the Cinema’s Legacy section at AFI Fest 2017, LOS CAIFANES—directed by genre filmmaker Juan Ibáñez—will screen in a restored DCP courtesy of Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional.

 

LOS CAIFANES, Saturday, November 11, at 3:15 pm.

CHINESE SIX-PLEX, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

* afifest.afi.com/2017/sections/los-caifanes

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Los Caifanes (1967).

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