Día de muertos (1988)

Original title

Día de difuntos

Directed by

Luis Alcoriza

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

On the Day of the Dead, a small Mexican town prepares for the holiday. The film follows several residents as they deal with family, tradition, and everyday life.

bittersweetwarmobservationalsentimentalearthylivelygood-naturedmildly poignant

What happens

Día de muertos ("Day of the Dead"), also known as Día de difuntos and Los hijos de la guayaba, ("The Children of the Guava") is a 1988 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Luis Alcoriza. It is Alcoriza's penultimate film as director and his last one made entirely in Mexico; his last film directed, La sombra del ciprés es alargada, was a Mexican-Spanish co-production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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