Evangelio de las Maravillas, El (1998)

Director:

Arturo Ripstein

Writer:

Paz Alicia Garciadiego (writer)

Release Date:

25 September 1998 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado)...

Plot Keywords:

Prostitute | Irreverent | Prophet | End Of The World | Fanaticism

Awards:

2 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Francisco Rabal	...	Papá Basilio
Katy Jurado	...	Mamá Dorita
Flor Eduarda Gurrola	...	Tomasa (as Edwarda Gurrola)
Carolina Papaleo	...	Nélida
Bruno Bichir	...	Gavilán
Patricia Reyes Spíndola	...	Micaela
Rafael Inclán
Rodrigo Ostap	...	Fidel
Angelina Peláez	...	Elodia
Gina Morett	...	Rita
Juan Carlos Colombo
Rafael Velasco	...	Mateo
Marta Aura
Asunción Balaguer	...	Mujer de la congregación
Teresa Mondragón

Also Known As:

Divine (Canada: English title)
Nueva Jerusalem, La (Spain) (working title)

Runtime:

112 min | Argentina:115 min

Country:

Mexico | Spain | Argentina

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Spain:13 | Argentina:16 | France:U | Singapore:R21

Filming Locations:

San Francisco Notario, Huamantla, Tlaxcala, Mexico

Company:

Aleph Producciones S.A.

A good idea, great visual work, but a feeble film

This film has great performances by the best Mexican movie actors, an amazing cinematography work by Guillermo Granillo, and an excellent art work. Unfortunatley the film isn´t as good as it should be...it has a great story, a good director, but the continous film references to Buñuel´s and other Ripstein´s films are really annoying, and affect the progress of the story. The last 10 minutes are the worst of the film, it just finishes and the audience can´t understand what happened...you get angry at being there for more than one and a half hours watching this film, and at the end you never understand what happened with all the characters. It´s a shame that Ripstein failed filming this great idea