A severed head in a jar tells its own legend. Mexican cinema at its weirdest.
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Acting
Armendáriz plays Villa as charismatic mythmaker even in death.
Direction
Rodríguez's framing device is gleefully, unapologetically unhinged.
Writing
Unreliable narrator taken to literal extremes.
Director
Ismael Rodríguez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Villa's actual skull was stolen from his tomb in 1926, making this preserved-head premise weirdly prophetic of real desecration.
Ismael Rodríguez directed this after his epic 'Tizoc,' deliberately shrinking national heroism to grotesque comedy—some critics called it sacrilege, others liberation.
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