Cronos / Sólo con tu pareja

Saturday | July 28, 2007 7:00 pm

Cronos

Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Sólo con tu pareja

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Screening on Film

Long before the successes of Pan’s Labyrinth and Children of Men, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón produced strikingly original works which heralded the advent of a new wave of Mexican cinema. In Cronos, an antique dealer discovers an ancient artifact which contains a strange insect-like device created by a 16th century alchemist. After the parasitic creature begins feeding off of the dealer, he becomes immortal and develops an insatiable bloodlust. An AIDS-era screwball comedy, Sólo con tu pareja follows the plight of a lothario who is led to believe he is HIV-positive by one of his conquests. Driven to suicide, the playboy meets a kindred spirit in the form of a despondent flight attendant.

PROGRAM

Cronos

Directed by Guillermo del Toro.
With Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook.
Mexico, 1994, 35mm, color, 92 min.
English and Spanish with English subtitles.
Sólo con tu pareja

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
With Daniel Giménez Cacho, Claudia Ramírez, Luis de Icaza.
Mexico, 1991, 35mm, color, 90 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.