El Callejón De Los Milagros
The Digital Gym Cinema presents a digital restoration of Jorge Fons’ iconic Mexican film “El callejón de los milagros,” featuring performances from Salma Hayek, María Rojo, Juan Manuel Bernal, and Daniel Giménez Cacho as individuals looking for love, redemption, and success in Mexico City. Year: 1995 Runtime: 140 minutes Rating: UR Director: Jorge Fons Country: Mexico Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles Critic Quotes: ‘Vet Mexican director Jorge Fons does a superlative job of translation and transformation in Midaq Alley, a riveting and well-acted drama based on the novel by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.” - Variety “It's beautifully acted (with a particularly luminous turn by Hayek), and Carlos Markovich's lush cinematography is evocatively soaked in shades of indigo and blue. But the film's best feature is its screenplay: Neatly divided into four chapters, each beginning at the same exact moment on a Sunday afternoon, Lenero's deft adaptation is expansive enough to capture the variety of Alley life while remaining marvelously concise. Fons's sensitive direction, meanwhile, manages the trick of balancing all the drama with quiet moments of self-reflection without ever allowing his momentum to flag.” - TV Guide