No One Writes to the Colonel ( El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba )

No One Writes to the Colonel (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Goya Awards
Sundance Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
113 min + 25 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Arturo Ripstein

Written By:
Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Gabriel García Márquez (novel)

Actors:
Fernando Luján ..... El coronel
Marisa Paredes ..... Lola
Salma Hayek ..... Julia
Rafael Inclán ..... Padre Ángel
Ernesto Yáñez ..... Don Sabas
Daniel Giménez Cacho ..... Nogales
Esteban Soberanes ..... Germán
Patricia Reyes Spíndola ..... Jacinta
Odiseo Bichir ..... Dr. Pardo
Julián Pastor ..... Lugones
Eugenio Lobo ..... Álvaro

Synopsis:

Based on the novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by the same name, but set in the forties, the film is a reflection on life and its illusions by the Mexican master Arturo Ripstein. In a small coastal town in Mexico in the late 1940's, an obstinate colonel of the anticlerical Cristeros War keeps waiting for the pension that has been promised to him but never delivered. Every Friday, he goes down to the docks, dressed in his best suit in anticipation of the arrival of the letter announcing his pension. Everyone knows that he is waiting in vain, but he refuses to face reality, even though, deep in his heart, he knows that the letter will never arrive. His wife is suffering from asthma; their son Agustin was killed by the fascists; and the roof over their head will soon be taken away because of the unpaid mortgage. Yet the Colonel stands by his dream, refusing to give up despite poverty and hunger. He knows that if he lets go, there is nothing else left. His wife Lola proposes to sell the cock, which is the only thing left behind from their son. But the Colonel does not want to give up the fighting cock, which he believes will win one day. The story is rendered in a simple and straightforward narrative style unlike Ripstein's earlier work, which is more baroque, or Marquez's magical realist style. Repeated close-ups accentuate the damages of a long and hopeless wait on a person's inner strength. Veteran Fernando Lujan is remarkable as the Colonel, but Spanish Marisa Paredes shines as the wife who suffers in dignity. Salma Hayek has a brief appearance as the prostitute who had a relationship with Agustin. In competition at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival, 1999.

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