Fernando Llanos' Matria was one of the most talked about Mexican documentaries at this year's Morelia. It went on to win the jury award for best Mexican documentary, thanks to Llanos' mixture of a very personal story with the sociopolitical history of Mexico. Llanos' own grandfather, Antolín Jimenez, is the doc's protagonist. He was a man who fought with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, became rich during the post-revolution period, and was very keen for the charro culture. In fact, during WWII he led an army of charros with the intention of defending Mexico from a possible Nazi invasion! On the other hand, a dark story about Antolín has been haunting his family for many, many years, to the point that even as a...
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- 10/26/2014
- Screen Anarchy
It's not strange that if a documentary begins as a very personal journey, the audience wonders why they should care for it. I wondered that myself while watching Matria, a doc in which its director Fernando Llanos is trying to find out who his own grandfather was. Llanos serves as the narrator too, firstly explaining that his grandpa Antolín Jímenez passed away just months after he was born, hence he didn't know him at all. Naturally, he is interested in learning about his own blood, and the fact that his family seems to be hiding a story about Antolín fuels this work. But the first task of Jímenez is certainly to engage the audience as well. Actually, with a story like Antolín's, it is kind...
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- 10/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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