-Beginning Tuesday
THE MEXICAN Embassy in Guyana is again preparing to display that country’s impressive film heritage with a showing of acclaimed movies and comedies, starring some of Mexico’s most outstanding actors and actresses from the 1940s and 1960s. The film festival encompasses awards such as Cantinflas, Dolores del Rio, Joaquin Pardave, Mauricio Garces and Ignacio Lopez Tarso.
The festival runs from Tuesday, November 8, to Friday, November 11, and Monday, November 14 at 18:00 hrs.
On the opening night, a reception will be held, and snacks will be served on the following days. Admission is free.
The following are little snippets on the films at reference telling why you should go see them:

María Candelaria (Xochimilco) is a 1943 film starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. It is directed by Emilio Fernandez .
It has the distinction of being the first Mexican film to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, making Mexico the first Latin American country to do so. The film later won a Silver Ariel award for Best Cinematography.
Regarded as one of Fernandez’s best works, the film portrays the indigenous people of Mexico with innocence and dignity. Major themes in the film include melodrama, indigenousness, nationalism, and the beauty of Mexico. María Candelaria is one of Mexico’s most beloved films of all time; it was ranked thirty-seventh among the top 100 films of Mexican cinema.

The comedy, Modisto de Senoras (Ladies dressmaker) was released in 1969. In the movie, successful fashion designer D’Maurice seduces married women, while he pretends to be gay in order to avoid arousing the suspicion of his clients’ husbands.

Macario is a 1960 drama directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Ignacio López Tarso.
It was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language. It was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The film received criticism in Mexico when it was released because it was considered a film made for the foreign viewer.

Yo Balle Con Don Porfirio is a musical comedy built around the talents of singer/dancer Mapy Cortes and pianist/conductor Emil Tuero. In a plot hinging on a case of mistaken identity, wealthy socialite, Don Servero has kept a big secret from his wife and teenage daughter. Unbeknownst to his family, he has fathered another child with his mistress, and she is the spitting image of his ‘legitimate’ daughter. Though Servero works hard to keep this daughter a secret, things get out-of-hand when his wife finally discovers the ruse, and when the beautiful girls’ boyfriends end up with the wrong girls.

Ahí está el detalle (‘There’s the detail’) is a 1940 comedy directed by Juan Bustillo Oro and stars Cantinflas, Joaquín Pardavé and Sara García with Sofía Álvarez and Dolores Camarillo. It was the twelfth film in Cantinflas’s career, and was considered the best by Mexican film critics, for it is considered the tenth of Mexico’s one-hundred best films. The film was released internationally as Here Is the Point, and in the United States as You’re Missing the Point.
The film’s last scene is based on the true events involving Mexican criminal, Álvaro Chapa and his public declarations that inspired Cantinflas’s form of speech for this film, also known as ‘cantinfleada’. The film’s director, Juan Bustillo Oro, based it largely on his experience as a pro bono lawyer at the Cárcel de Belén. The film was completed in only three weeks, and the only problems during filming were caused by Cantinflas’s improvisation, because of what he considered to be a poorly written script.

Summary of plot
Cantinflas is the boyfriend of Paz, the maid of the Cayetano Lastre household. It is dinnertime, and Cantinflas waits outside the mansion for Paz’s whistle, signalling him to enter the kitchen to eat.
This is because ‘Bobby’ the dog is in the front yard, and Paz’s boss does not know about Cantinflas’ entrances into the house.
Although, like other times, Cantinflas goes straight to eat, this time his girlfriend has one favour for him to do, that of killing the dog, ‘Bobby’, who has had a sudden attack of rabies and does not let Cayetano leave for an appointment.
He does not get to eat until he kills the dog. Cantinflas is nervous, but eventually kills the dog with a gun. However, inside the house, Cayetano plans a scheme to unfoil his wife, Dolores del Paso’s ‘supposed’ adultery with her ex-boyfriend, Bobby Lechuga. Dolores does not hold a relationship with Bobby Lechuga, but Cayetano’s overbearing jealousy makes him think otherwise.