Julián Pastor
1943 - 2015
Principio y fin
Arturo Ripstein
Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The Beginning and the End
Arráncame la Vida
Roberto Sneider
Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Tear This Heart Out
El Esperado Amor Desesperado
Julián Pastor
Sonia Furió, Ofelia Guilmáin
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Patsy My Love
Manuel Michel
Ofelia Medina, Julio Alemán
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
Patsy My Love
There Are No Thieves in This Village
Alberto Isaac
Julián Pastor, Rocío Sagaón
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
There Are No Thieves in This Village
El héroe desconocido
Julián Pastor
Rafael Inclán, Gregorio Casal
An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
El héroe desconocido
Los pequeños privilegios
Julián Pastor
Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Hugo Stiglitz
Class differences in Mexican society are expressed in the life and behavior of a young couple member of the burgoisie that will soon become parents, in contrast to their servant and the fatal consequences she suffers due to an unwanted pregnancy.
Small Privileges
