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Pedro Páramo (2024)

Pedro Páramo poster
Directed by
Rodrigo Prieto
Genre
drama film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
2h 03m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 92 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man travels to a ghost town to fulfill his mother's dying wish and confront the father he has never known. The story unfolds in a place where the dead linger and past cruelties echo through time.

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What happens

Pedro Páramo is a 2024 Mexican magical realism drama film directed by Rodrigo Prieto from a screenplay written by Mateo Gil, based on the 1955 novel by Juan Rulfo. It stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as the eponymous character and Tenoch Huerta as Juan Preciado. Pedro Páramo had its world premiere at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2024 in the Platform Prize section, and premiered worldwide on Netflix on 6 November 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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