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Macario

1960

Roberto Gavaldón

Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez ...

7.8

1,951

Drama. Fantasy Macario is a poor, hungry peasant, with a wife and several children, who sells wood in the town. Fed up with a life full of hardships, Macario longs for a good meal. In an attempt to satisfy his wishes, his wife steals a turkey and cooks it for him, but before starting to eat, he receives a visit from the Devil, God, and Death, who ask him to share his turkey.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"The charm of it is in the felicity with which it flows from a solemn, sad account of misery and futility into a bubbling comedy, spiced with morbid witticisms, and then into a drollish horror tale."	POS
United States	Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader	"[It] combines magical realism and folkloric elements of Mexico's Indianist movement with results that are alternately comic and poignant."	POS

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