A rich girl dies, gets witch-doctor CPR, then burns every social rule to ash.
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Direction
Gurrola's dreamlike Mexican surrealism before it was cool
Cinematography
Shadow-soaked visuals that refuse to explain themselves
Acting
Mariscal's dead-eyed defiance of everything bourgeois
Director
Alfredo Gurrola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Mexico's 1970s 'Cine de Arte' movement, when filmmakers used state funding to make aggressively uncommercial work. Gurrola was basically paid to be weird.
Diana Mariscal was primarily a stage actress; this is one of her only screen performances, and she treats the camera like an enemy. The shaman is played by Wolf Ruvinskis, a Lithuanian-Mexican former professional wrestler.
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