Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2016. Go to TIFF 2016 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
IXCANUL (VOLCANO) (Guatemala, France 2015) ***1/2
Directed by Jayro Bustamante
Starring: María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún
Review by Gilbert Seah
It i the age old story of a human being’s quest for a better life despite mounting odds. Here is Maria’s desire to marry the one she loves and to escape to a better place, where the grass is greener. But she is betroth to someone else, while she gets pregnant in the meantime by her jilted lover. This story has been told many times in many films before but never in this new and mesmerizing and dreamlike fashion.
Maria is the daughter born into a poor family that work the plantations under a stern landlord who…
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