The rare film directed by a Mexican female. She -- Busi Cortes -- beats back some Gothic-romance tendencies (the spooky housekeeper, the revelatory diary, the infidelity, the suicide, the terrible revenge) with a treatment magisterially detached, dignified, decorous, unflappable. A couple of tenacious stereotypes crumple in the process. With Diana Bracho, Pedro Armendariz, and Dolores Beristain. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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