Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
Acting
Fernando Luján's face holds 56 years of waiting
Cinematography
Suffocating interiors, endless rain, color draining from hope
Direction
Ripstein shoots like a funeral nobody attended
Director
Arturo Ripstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
García Márquez hated this adaptation so much he tried to block it; Ripstein made it anyway and won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.
This was Salma Hayek's return to Mexican cinema after Hollywood—she plays the colonel's desperate daughter-in-law with zero glamour, just hunger.
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