Macario Reviews

Bruno Traven was a writer born in America but of Scandinavian origin (some say German), who lived in Mexico for a long time, Mexican nationalized and dying there. Like other writers (Graham Green or Malcolm Lowry to name one) was influenced by the Mexican people and wrote several novels about their customs and their character as closely as it was written by a Mexican. One of these great texts of Bruno Traven is entitled "Macario" novel that is based the film directed by Roberto Gavaldón.

The movie contains some unforgettables sequences. Sum is a moving account, which shows the extreme poverty of Mexican peasants, and all that surrounds it, hunger and death, but also the kindness and love. Actors, brimming with natural, truthful account of the social stratum of a village either: the chatter of the people, and how haughty contempt of the bourgeoisie, intransigence and cruelty of the Inquisition. This captured by the bright camera of Gabriel Figueroa.

One of the best Mexican films of all time.