View Item - SP-T007-1990

Language:
Spanish
Duration:
110 min.
Catalog Num:
SP-T007-1990
Title:
The Green Wall
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
Romance Languages

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

Based on the filmmaker Armando Rolbes Godoy's own experiences of homesteading in the Peruvian jungle, The Greeen Wall is "a bitter and beautiful movie" in which " Godo translates his experience into film poetery, idyllic but cruel, rich but unyielding to the will of a handsome young settler (Mexican star Julio Aleman, in a vibrant performance) who is determinded to survive there with his family. The hero's relationship with his wife and child...are established in an eloquent opening sequence-when a torrential downpour tells the young parents that today they can do nothing better than lie abed and make love, at least until the boy wakes up..

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