morgan
(morgan)
March 23, 2017, 8:59pm
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Watched it all tonight. It doesnât get less violent. Didnât know about this one before. Real interesting. Serious stuff. I agree to the positive comments on it previously on this thread. I guess there was never an English version made, but should really like to see it in wide screen. I see there is some mention of it in Fraylingâs contribution to Critical Perspectives on the Western . It is not set in 1915 as I said above, but in 1914, in the final months of Huertaâs dictatorship, the same period as Duck, You Sucker! according to Frayling.
morgan
(morgan)
November 5, 2017, 8:59pm
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Well-written review. I have a copy of it in Spanish, a language I do not understand that well. For that reason, I havenât watched it yet, but with the help of your description, I should be able to follow it (the Italian version is no longer available on You tube)
stanton
(Stanton)
November 6, 2017, 12:36pm
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I watched it once, and it was kinda ok. About 4 or 5/10
scherpschutter:
I have a copy of it in Spanish, a language I do not understand that well. For that reason, I havenât watched it yet, but with the help of your description, I should be able to follow it (the Italian version is no longer available on You tube)
Well, thereâs this one at CG.
I noticed that, will try to download it today
Now available again with a 16:9 image ratio and good picture quality, this time at 25 frames per second.
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morgan
(morgan)
July 18, 2019, 8:42pm
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At long last. If you havenât seen this film in full, now is the time.
Mickey13
(Mickey13)
November 17, 2022, 3:13pm
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Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2022 thread:
Other than the fact that Fajardo turns in one of his better performances, this is basically a low-rent Zapata western with most of the same tropes you have seen in more accomplished works e.g. the idealist revolutionary type is contrasted with the apolitical, thieving peon who gets involved owing to purely pecuniary reasons, but gradually turns into a revolutionary himself; you could say that the motion picture features a juxtaposition between the informed, idealist form of violence as well as the apolitical, ignorant brute force represented by Malpelo.
Apart from some shaky, hand-held camerawork, the execution is fine for the most part, yet the film evidently lacks the polish and sophistication of the more celebrated works and fails to provide much in the way of novel ideas which could distinguish it from the outings it essays to emulate. In spite of having loftier ambitions, it is a cheap production through and through and its visibly inferior production values saliently vitiate the final results. I suppose it is preferable to see something like this, which was clearly made with the intent of outling broader social issues and invoking topics going beyond filmâs modest boundaries, but the final outcome does not exactly live up to its exaltedly defined goals and too often appears excessively preachy for its own good, getting enmeshed in its arid political discussions about revolution.
Carlos
(carlos)
August 9, 2023, 6:42pm
30
Malpelo has been updated to the new layout (3.0). Let us know if you can add anything: pictures, posters, trivia, facts, figures, links, etcâŚ
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